More Books By Rachel Simon

When Rachel Simon and her architect husband Hal begin to renovate their house, she braces herself for the ups and downs that often accompany such projects. But to her surprise, as the old walls fall, and new paint appears, she is propelled into a transformative journey that encompasses the deepest issues of life and love. With compassion, humor, and hope this 2009 memoir shimmers with memorable insights into the power of forgiveness, the struggle to find meaning and purpose, the compatibility of imperfection and happiness, and the ways broken bonds can be mended. Home renovation becomes a beautiful allegory for re-evaluating and repairing the most intimate of relationships.

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This inspirational guide for aspiring and experienced writers was published in 1997. Written in a friendly, hopeful, and gently humorous tone, it focuses on the creative process and the emotional ups and downs of the creative life, providing insights into how to persist in the face of rejection, frustration, feelings of inadequacy, lack of support from loved ones, and more. It also offers practical advice, from how to organize your time so you actually sit down and write to how to read as a writer.

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The Magic Touch, published in 1994, was Rachel Simon's second book and debut novel.

A wild, magical realist ride, The Magic Touch is funny, sexy, satirical, linguistically exuberant, and utterly unique. Written as a fictional biography, it tells the life story of a woman with magical sexual powers that she uses to heal people: during the act of making love, her partners re-experience their most painful memories, and as she lives their memories with them, she removes their suffering and takes it into herself, leaving them cleaned, strong, and youthful.  The novelist Fay Weldon had high praise: "Best novel for ages.  Loved it."

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Rachel Simon's debut, published in 1990, is a collection of stories about the struggle to find, or hold onto, love and intimacy. These tales are told from the point of view of adolescent girls wrestling with their sexuality, young mothers embracing their children, and elderly women fearing the loss of family. Some stories are firmly rooted in reality, others tread into magical realism or surrealism; tones range from serious to comic and sunny to dark. Throughout the book, Simon employs such a wide range of voices — sweet, shrewd, wistful, irascible, vulnerable, sensual — that the Philadelphia Inquirer hailed her as "a literary ventriloquist."

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