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Jessica Berger Gross

Biography

Jessica Berger Gross

Jessica Berger Gross is the author of the memoir ESTRANGED: Leaving Family and Finding Home. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Longreads and many other publications. She lives in Maine with her husband and teenage son. HAZEL SAYS NO is her first novel.

Jessica Berger Gross

Books by Jessica Berger Gross

by Jessica Berger Gross - Fiction, Women's Fiction

When Hazel Blum’s father gets a tenured job at a prestigious college, she and her family relocate from the hustle and bustle of Brooklyn to a middle-of-nowhere college town in Maine. With her mother, Claire, a clothing designer, and her father, Gus, an American Studies professor, Hazel and her 11-year-old brother, Wolf, spend the summer at the town pool, where they acclimate to their new lives and connect with the town’s sprawling community. That is, until a dramatic fallout on the very first day of her senior year tips the fickle balance of idyllic Riverburg and impacts everyone in her family.