Praise & Reviews

Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life

“Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life is a richly imagined, deeply felt, and unusually fully realized collection. In story after story, Ronna Wineberg shows her characters making surprising swerves and connections, reaching from the past into the present. I marvel at how much she can accomplish in a relatively small number of pages, and at how these stories stay with me. Wineberg is a writer of lovely generosity.”—Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy

“...the fifteen stories comprising Ronna Wineberg's Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life are true literary gems by a writer with a genuine flair for deftly crafting truly memorable characters.”—Midwest Book Review (The Fiction Shelf)

“...Fulfilling the debts owed between parents and children and finding meaning in the past and the present are unifying themes of these rich and memorable stories.”—Eric Hoffer Book Award (Judge’s comments about Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life)

“As Ronna Wineberg notes in Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life, ‘The human eye is always more than enough.’ Her own perceptive eye lands on people in the Midwest, Manhattan, Poland, and Germany as they maneuver their way through love and loss. These stories are beautifully written and emotionally complex, portraying our vital ties to spouses, children, parents, and our own pasts. Wineberg is an author with heart, whose tenderness toward her characters and the fragile loveliness of life shine through on every page.”—Donna Baier Stein, author of Sympathetic People and publisher of Tiferet

“Ronna Wineberg has written lovely stories, threaded through with the themes of American Jewishness: self-hate, self-love, apartness, the urgent need to belong. As well as a wisdom and compassion that come only from deep experience—of writing and of life.”—John Benditt, author of The Boatmaker

“The power of Ronna Wineberg’s writing lies in her ability to create lovable characters. From the moment her stories begin, you feel for these smart, intense, highly self-critical men and women who inhabit the pages.”—Jewish Book Council

“This collection of short stories is another ‘feather in the cap’ for author Ronna Wineberg...The stories are honest, emotional and have a lot of depth...Nine Facts that Can Change Your Life will provide rich material for any discussion group or other programming, and it will make a fantastic addition to any library collection. Recommended for all Jewish libraries.”—Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews

“Women and Children First Bookstore Review—A Tale of Two Authors”—Splash Magazines