Price: $9.99

Pages: 270

Publisher: Dzanc Books

Imprint: Dzanc Books

Publication Date: 27 September 2012

ISBN: 9781937854126

Format: eBook

"Six women in Los Angeles, including a belly dancer and a vaguely dissatisfied wife and mother, meet regularly for group therapy. The married woman, despite her conventional appearance and habits, turns out to have an open mind and self-possession—virtues that the group comes to appreciate when various crises, mostly sexual, threaten to undo them all. Merrill Joan Gerber writes funny and accurate dialogue, which she laces with artful descriptions—serpentine and syncopated—of her veiled heroine dancing to cymbals and drums." —The New Yorker

"Gerber's warm, compassionate, witty look at the lifestyles of liberated women is bound to awaken glints of insight in many… Gerber introduces as colorful and ingratiating a group of women as we have yet encountered in feminist literature. Their revelations—trenchant, funny, often poignant—stir Maris to come to terms with her repressed sensuality. How a Jewish heroine rediscovers the joys of marriage as she performs a belly dance to the accompaniment of an Arab drummer… is related by Gerber with zest and sensitivity. Her richly satisfying narrative is informed by an acute ear for the nuances of family life and a wryly observant eye cast on those with the middle-aged sexual itch." —Publishers Weekly

"The style is light, beguiling and readable: the humor downright heartwarming." —Chicago Tribune

"Self-discovery has brought Jewish Maris to the height of Arabian delights… " —Los Angeles Times

"The Lady With the Moving Parts is an extremely funny and wonderfully sensitive novel… readers will thoroughly enjoy this warm and zesty novel." —Lewiston Maine Daily Sun

"This is a novel for women who feel they missed out on the sexual revolution… full of warmth, humanity and insight into the old-fashioned virtues which Gerber, in her own way, makes as desirable and acceptable as anyone has in a long while." —Indianapolis News
"Gerber gives a warm, believable, very funny story an appealingly tender ending." — West Coast Review of Books