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Ilana Masad

Biography

Ilana Masad

Ilana Masad is a queer Israeli-American fiction writer, essayist and book critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, the Paris Review, NPR, Buzzfeed, Catapult, StoryQuarterly and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, as well as several others. She is the founder and host of The Other Stories podcast and a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she also serves as the Assistant Nonfiction Editor for Prairie Schooner. ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS is her debut novel.

Ilana Masad

Books by Ilana Masad

by Ilana Masad - Fiction

After Maggie Krause’s mother, Iris, dies suddenly in a car crash, Maggie finds five sealed envelopes with her will, each addressed to a mysterious man she’s never heard of. Overwhelmed by her grief and frustrated with her family, she decides to hand-deliver the letters. The ensuing road trip takes her over miles of California highways, through strangers’ recollections of a second, hidden life, and a journey through her own fears as she navigates her new relationship. As she fills in the details of Iris’ story, Maggie must confront the possibility that almost everything she knew about her --- her marriage, her lukewarm relationship to Judaism, her disapproval of her daughter’s queerness --- is more meaningful than she ever allowed herself to imagine.