If essays are your reading jam — and they’re often mine — you should check out this collection, which was selected by Meghan Daum for the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. Within its pages, the publisher promises, you’ll read about the author’s “years of immersion in the Russian and French languages; her struggles to gain a basic understanding of Judaism, its history, and her place in it; and her search for a form to hold the stories that emerge from what she has lived, observed, overheard, and misremembered.” (Erika Dreifus, Jewish Journal, May 24th, 2018, retrieved from https://jewishjournal.com/culture/books/234455/seven-books-keep-summer-reading-radar/).