Jillian Medoff attended Barnard College and received an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. A former fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, VCCA and Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, Jillian has taught at NYU and the University of Georgia.
"I Couldn't Love You More might look like fluffy summer fun-- and
it is fun, witty, and big-hearted-- but it is also a thoughtful
examination of the choices we make and the devastating prices we
pay."--Jennifer Weiner, New York Times bestselling author of The
Next Best Thing
"I Couldn't Love YouMore hits the universal truths, the deepest
search for identity, family and belonging. This captivating
page-turner draws readers right into the intricacies of the human
heart."--Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Birds of Paradise and
Crescent
"A daringly sympathetic portrait of a stepmother forced to make an
impossible choice."--Vanity Fair
"A thoroughly involving and intimately real portrait of a blended
family in crisis. Jillian Medoff takes you inside the mind of a
narrator undergoing life-changing events, and the voice in her head
could be yours."--Janice Erlbaum, author of Girlbomb and Have You
Found Her
"Every woman has one: the guy who got away. So what happens when he
walks into your life again? If you were happy before-can you still
make that claim? The choices we make-and the ones we don't
make-form the backbone of Jillian Medoff's wonderful novel. These
are characters you know, or might even have been, and their trials
and tribulations are by turn devastating, hilarious, and painfully
familiar."--Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Sing
You Home and House Rules
"Four stars. Dazzling...hilarious and heart-wrenching."--People
"Fun, smart and warmhearted..."--O Magazine
"How well Jillian Medoff writes about love - familial and romantic
- and how deftly she brings her heroine, Eliot, to an almost
unbearably suspenseful climax. A deeply satisfying novel."--Margot
Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy and The House on
Fortune Street
"I COULDN'T LOVE YOU MORE is a sheer pleasure to read. Boasting
clear, beautiful writing and characters who could be people I know
(and love), it's a gripping story that doesn't let up. But more
than that, Medoff is that rare thing, a novelist brave enough to
unleash the complex, strong emotions of which literature is
made."--Kate Christensen, author of The Great Man and The
Astral
"Incisive, poignant, witty....How can a book be so harrowing and so
acidly funny at the same time? I closed this addictive novel with a
satisfied sigh."--Jancee Dunn, author of Why Is My Mother Getting A
Tattoo? And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had To Ask
"Medoff produces another fallible, witty, realistic heroine with
whom readers will identify. Eliot's biased and evolving narration
brings the characters to life in this gripping story of personal
growth. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, Medoff's honest
writing and realistic dialogue make the book truly enjoyable, while
a Sophie's Choice moment and its repercussions make it a real
page-turner."--Booklist
"Medoff's talent for characterization is evident in her latest
novel, a richly layered tale about that complicated thing called
family...[Her] fully realized novel beautifully explores the most
important relationships we create: as parent, as sibling, as
spouse."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"The incredibly talented Jillian Medoff is one of those authors
whose storytelling is so honest it feels more like truth than like
fiction. Funny, wrenching, suspenseful, and smart, I COULDN'T LOVE
YOU MORE is one of those books that stays with you long after
you've finished the last page."--Lauren Grodstein, author of A
Friend of the Family
"The witty and (sometimes) wise heroine of I Couldn't Love You More
is an unmarried wife, a mother, a step-mother, a daughter, a
sister, a would-be lover and she is approaching middle age. Need I
say more? Jillian Medoff has written an honest and comic novel that
is unflinching and tremendous with love."--Binnie Kirshenbaum,
author of The Scenic Route
"Unflinching in its honesty, I Couldn't Love You More is an
intimate story of contemporary family love -- with all its
maddening and miraculous complexities. Jillian Medoff's writing
dazzles the brain, cracks up the funny bone, and breaks open the
heart. Her characters are so realistically layered, you'll
sometimes want to hug them and sometimes want to shout at them, but
you'll never want to forget them."--Seré Prince Halverson, author
of The Underside of Joy
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