Nobody Will Tell You This But Me A true (as told to me) story

Bess Kalb

eBook - 2020

NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:VOGUE • FORBES • BOOKPAGE • NEW YORK POST • WIRED“I have not been as profoundly moved by a book in years.” —Jodi PicoultEven after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force—irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life. Recounting both family lore and family secrets, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There’s Bobby’s mother, who trave...led solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms, and Bess’s mother, a 1970s rebel who always fought... more