{"id":1314,"date":"2022-03-10T22:18:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T22:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lisabravermoss.com\/?page_id=1314"},"modified":"2023-11-11T03:33:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T03:33:34","slug":"the-measure-of-his-grief","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lisabravermoss.com\/books\/the-measure-of-his-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"The Measure of His Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; gap=&#8221;35&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1652120967608{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;background: #836373 url(https:\/\/www.lisabravermoss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/page-title-section.jpg?id=1451) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1648634843564{margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;50px&#8221;][vc_text_separator title=&#8221;The Measure of His Grief&#8221; 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gap=&#8221;35&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1652131197953{padding-top: 2em !important;padding-bottom: 2em !important;background-image: url(https:\/\/www.lisabravermoss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/archive-row.jpg?id=1479) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Press Release<\/h2>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; align=&#8221;align_left&#8221; border_width=&#8221;3&#8243; el_width=&#8221;70&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#d2a44f&#8221;][vc_column_text]Oakland, California\u2014<em>The Measure of His Grief<\/em>\u00a0has barely hit the bookshelves, and it&#8217;s already stirring up controversy. \u00a0That\u2019s because male circumcision\u2014a topic that most often generates either sophomoric jokes or shrill rhetoric\u2014is at the center of this thought-provoking contemporary literary novel by local author Lisa Braver Moss.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The novel, released by Notim Press on November 1st, weaves medical and religious information into the compelling story of Dr. Sandy Waldman, a Jewish physician in Berkeley who finds himself waging a campaign against the one Jewish tradition that\u2019s still observed even in the most iconoclastic of towns and among the most assimilated of Jews: \u00a0circumcision.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The son of Holocaust survivors, Sandy cannot turn his back on his heritage; he must find a way to reconcile his anti-circumcision stand with his Jewish identity. \u00a0But the more Sandy learns, the more startled he is by what he finds: the tissue lost to circumcision is highly erogenous; circumcisions as practiced today are far more radical than they were in Biblical times; and around the world, tens of thousands of men are currently engaged in the astonishing, but under-reported, enterprise of foreskin \u201crestoration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Told from alternating viewpoints, the book interlaces Sandy\u2019s journey with that of his wife, Ruth, an innovative nutritionist and cookbook author who will lose patience as Sandy lives and breathes the circumcision issue, and of their college-aged daughter, Amy, who must grapple with a bid for contact from her incarcerated birth father just as she\u2019s trying to sort out her future.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sandy immerses himself in Jewish study, but fails to grasp the extent to which he\u2019s jeopardizing both marriage and career with his anti-circumcision activism. \u00a0Could foreskin \u201crestoration\u201d be Sandy\u2019s ticket to redemption\u2014his way to win back Ruth, regain his equilibrium, come to terms with his heritage?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The first novel ever to tackle the male circumcision controversy,\u00a0<em>The Measure of His Grief<\/em>\u00a0is also the author\u2019s first work of fiction. \u00a0It will appeal not only to Jewish readers, but to anyone looking for an entertaining read\u2014and thoughtful inquiry into how tradition intersects with modern sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;[The] characters practically leap into the room. . . . Filled with depth, emotion, tension and humor.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>\u2014Denise Sherer Jacobson, author of <em>The Question of David<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;A terrific, entertaining and very original story you won&#8217;t forget. A must-read!&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>\u2014Dr. Dean Edell, Emmy award-winning medical journalist \u200b<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;A thoughtful, nuanced, and wryly funny portrait of Berkeley and the foibles of its denizens.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>\u2014Liza Dalby, author of <em>Geisha<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; gap=&#8221;35&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1652193441078{padding-top: 2em !important;padding-bottom: 2em !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3><i>The Measure of His Grief\u00a0<\/i>Reviews and Interviews<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; align=&#8221;align_left&#8221; border_width=&#8221;3&#8243; el_width=&#8221;70&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#d2a44f&#8221;]<div class=\"standard-arrow list-divider bullet-top\"><ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #836373;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #836373;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lisabravermoss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Preputial-phantasies-in-Lisa-Braver-Mosss-The-Measure-of-His-Grief-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preputial Phantasy<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #836373;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #836373;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleyside.com\/2010\/11\/08\/berkeley-native-tackles-circumcision-in-novel\/#more-19620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview in Berkeleyside<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #836373;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #836373;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikkun.org\/nextgen\/mourning-a-foreskin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Review in Tikkun<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #836373;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #836373;\" href=\"https:\/\/nebula.wsimg.com\/d1ca6ea1f712b54ca0265b177d268636?AccessKeyId=9ED65BBF6F63130E489A&amp;disposition=0&amp;alloworigin=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Review by Association of Jewish Libraries<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #836373;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #836373;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #836373;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthebris.com\/refusing-to-close-the-book-an-interview-with-lisa-braver-moss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview on Beyond the Bris<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #836373;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #836373;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthebris.com\/a-comment-on-the-measure-of-his-grief\/\">Review on Beyond the Bris<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #836373;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #836373;\" 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