Was this just a brief skirmish, or the beginning of a thirty-year feud? In the Rubenstein family, it could go either way. When their beloved older sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into decades of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives-divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals-their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible. With This is Not About Us, master storyteller Allegra Goodman–whose prior collection was heralded as “one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life.

Format: Hardcover
Published: 2026
Publisher: Dial Press
Pages: 300
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0593447840
ISBN 13: 9780593447840