Esti Skloot's book: Uprooted, A Memoir of a Marriage is now available in the following bookstores: Book Passage in Corte Madera and Copperfield's Books in Larkspur Landing and San Rafael. It's also available now on Barnes&Noble's website:
"Esti Skloot has written a courageous and poignant memoir that follows a vulnerable young woman and her early married life in New York, Israel, England and California. She describes in heartbreaking detail her struggle with a domineering husband and her desire for a simple and
loving relationship that seemed so impossible to obtain. She shares her deeply personal story with a profound with and honesty that is very refreshing. This beautifully written book was hard to put down and an inspiration to all women who have faced great challenges. In Uprooted Esti Skloot shows her strength to overcome great loss and find new meaning in life with her beloved children." --Reviewed by Jocelyn Shorten. |
Esti Skloot is an adjunct professor of Hebrew at the University of San Francisco. She was born in England to Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi Germany. She grew up in Israel where she received her teaching credentials from the Hebrew Teachers’ Seminary in Jerusalem.
Esti served in the IDF as a singer in an army entertainment troupe. She married an American whom she met while working on a ZIM line ship and immigrated to New York. After moving to California, she received her BA in music at Sonoma State University and her MFA in creative writing at the University of San Francisco. Esti loves nature, music, and books. She is now studying to play the flute and just finished writing her memoir, "Uprooted, a Memoir of a Marriage,” which is based on her nineteen-year-marriage to her first husband who died of a brain tumor. Esti lives in Mill Valley, California, with her Israeli husband and their dog Laila. She has three children and four grandchildren who live in the Bay Area. |
Uprooted is a wise, moving meditation on marriage, family, home, illness, endurance, and creativity. Esti Skloot explores in vivid scenes and poignant language the shifting perspectives we have across time, and the ways in which decisions we make and unforeseen events challenge and define us. This is a deeply felt, urgent memoir.
--Floyd Skloot, author of In the Shadow of Memory |