"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 "We find in Esti Skloot's Uprooted: A Memoir of a Marriage, a powerful meditation on the loss of love and trust in a marriage, the blessings that can flow from even the most painful of quandaries, and an unblinkered act of truth-telling—the fight to tell this truth astonishing us and bringing, one hopes, a measure of mercy to the artist." —Robert Roper, author of Nabokov in America "Esti Skloot has written a painfully honest account of her youthful marriage to a charismatic American she barely knows. As the couple shifts from New York to England to Israel and finally northern California, her husband’s erratic moods and domineering behavior undermine her confidence in herself and threaten to destroy her hopes for loving intimacy. When in his early thirties Steve is diagnosed with a brain tumor, Esti must face the likelihood that she will have to raise their three children alone. This coming-of-age story has truth, heart and soul." —Abby Wasserman, author of Mary Tuthill Lindheim: Art and Inspiration