Bringing Bubbe Home,
a Memoir of Letting Go Through Love and Death
Debra Zaslow was humming along on baby-boomer autopilot, immersed in her life as a professional storyteller, wife of a Rabbi, and mother of two teenagers when she felt compelled to bring her 103-year-old grandmother, Bubbe, who was dying alone in a nursing facility, home to live and die with her family. She had no idea if she’d have the emotional stamina to midwife her to the other side. Bringing Bubbe Home is the story of their time together…
“Unable to bear seeing her Russian-born, 103-year-old grandmother die in a nursing home, Zaslow makes the decision to care for her during her final months. Bringing Bubbe Home is deeply compassionate, but unflinching. This book chronicles the realities of the body, the demands of our emotions, and the promise of the spirit. The beauty here is hard-won and authentic.”
Sue William Silverman, author, Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction
“This courageous, poignant, truthful book will give you an experience that will never leave you. You will become wiser in the reading, shocked and compassionate as love rises to the challenge of tending to life’s end. ”
Jean Houston, Ph.D, author of A Mythic Life: Learning to Live our Greater Story
Debra Gordon Zaslow Publications
Read Debra’s Writing on Curly Red Stories, flash fiction website
“’57 Chevy “(excerpt from Bringing Bubbe Home)
http://curlyredstories.com/57-chevy-by-debra-gordon-zaslow/
“Pumping at the Richfield”
http://curlyredstories.com/pumping-at-the-richfield-by-debra-gordon-zaslow/
Interview with Debra Zaslow
http://curlyredstories.com/debra-gordon-zaslow-cr-stories-interview/
Stories in anthologies
Drash Northwest Mosaic, Journal of Jewish Literature, volume IV, Beth Am Press 2010
(a twelve page excerpt from Bringing Bubbe Home)
http://www.abebooks.com/Drash-Northwest-Mosaic-2010-5770-Volume-IV/4115690735/bd
Cup of Comfort for Couples, edited by Colleen Sell, Adams Media 2011
story : ‘Diving for Love” adapted from Bringing Bubbe Home
http://www.amazon.com/Cup-Comfort-Couples-Stories-celebrate/dp/1440502005
Miytzvah Stories: Seeds for Inspiration and Learning
edited by Goldie Milgram, Reclaiming Judaism press, 2011
Story “The Magic Gourd: a Story for Sukkot”
, http://www.amazon.com/Mitzvah-Stories-Seeds-Inspiration-Learning/dp/0984804803
Chosen Tales: Stories told by Jewish Storytelleers edited by Peninnah Schram, Jason Aaronson 1995
Story: “The Journey of the Lost Princess”
http://www.amazon.com/Chosen-Tales-Stories-Jewish-Storytellers/dp/1568213522