Bess Kalb, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

- Dimensions: 8" x 5"- "I was so moved by this memoir by the smart and funny Bess Kalb, an extraordinarily gifted writer and Block Island summer resident. I laughed out loud, cried, and developed an even deeper appreciation for the women who raised me, my mother and paternal grandmother. I'm gifting a copy of this to my mom this holiday." - Tori- Even after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force—irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life.- Recounting both family lore and family secrets, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There’s Bobby’s mother, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms, and Bess’s mother, a 197