DALYA BENOR
A book that’s deeply changed me is: Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg. Ginzburg was an Italian Jewish writer whose gentle, subtly dry humor, and quiet observations struck a chord in my heart that few other writers have. Her prose feels like reading my own thoughts, and the story of her family—with her curmudgeonly, outdoorsy Jewish father and social mother who prefers shopping to climbing mountains, hit far too close to home. Her writing inspired me to document the simplistic, hare-brained dynamics that is family. She feels contemporary, even decades later.
