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here is what some (amazing) people are saying about Amen, Amen, Amen…

the london times
Oprah's Reading Room
ELLE Readers’ Prize
Chicago Tribune’s Best of 2009
SELF book of the month for November, 2009
MARIE CLAIRE
The FORWARD
HeeB
The DAILY BEAST
National Public Radio (WCGU)
PLENTY
The JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL
POWELL’S
The FRISKY

look for upcoming reviews in BUST, the JERUSALEM REPORT and a special on INSIDE EDITION too!

Abby on TYRA!

Amen, Amen, Amen is Abby Sher’s brave, haunting, amazing memoir of her lifelong struggle with OCD. But it’s more than this—it’s an inspiring tale of a woman overcoming adversity, learning to trust herself, allowing herself to fall in love, letting go of her parents’ complex legacy. For memoir-lovers, it is a prayer answered. Told in the author’s fresh, wise, witty voice, I found the book, at times, impossible to put down. This incredible book makes for obsessive, compulsive reading.
—Jennifer Finney Boylan >>
Author of SHE’S NOT THERE and
I’M LOOKING THROUGH YOU
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Abby Sher has written a beautiful book. It’s deeply personal and original, but deals with the big issues we all struggle with — faith, family, food, and, of course, Neil Diamond.
—A.J. Jacobs >>
Author of THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY

Amen, Amen, Amen, offers a poignant, pitch-perfect look at love, loss, danger and redemption through the eyes of a young woman struggling with OCD. Abby Sher illuminates her fascinating story with insight, wit and compassion, making for a compelling and powerful read.
–Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg >>
Author of SURPRISED BY GOD: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE RELIGION

Even if you’ve never had one obsessive thought in your life, which I highly doubt, you will find yourself in Amen, Amen, Amen. Fine, maybe you don’t count your kisses or speak Hebrew or create elaborate anorexic exercise mantras, but I'm fairly certain you know what it’s like to feel out of control, small and unseen. Abby Sher’s humanity, humility and hilarity will make you feel less alone and blessed to be alive in this fragile world.
-Kimberlee Auerbach >>
Author of THE DEVIL, THE LOVERS & ME: MY LIFE IN TAROT

Abby Sher's true story of overcoming her darkest obsessions is wonderful, weird, hilarious, heartbreaking and completely unputdownable.
-Susan Shapiro >>
Author of LIGHTING UP & SPEED SHRINKING

Amen, Amen, Amen is a memoir of a child's broken heart - and all the absurd, funny, and oh-so-sacred pains Abby Sher endures to pick up the pieces and walk them silently home. Tender and lovely.
-Barbara Robinette Moss >>
Author of CHANGE ME INTO ZEUS'S DAUGHTER

With a disarmingly genuine and vivid voice, Sher takes you by the hand and dances you through a deeply emotional, often funny and inevitably triumphant romp through her psyche. Writing, storytelling and humanity at its best. I laughed, I cried, I related...I grew.
-Jonathan Fields >>
Author of CAREER RENEGADE