Delia Ephron

New York Times Best Seller

Starred review from Publisher's Weekly

Siracusa

mesmerizing...
seductive and edgy...
The couples shared vacation in Italy unravels like a Greek tragedy ... in Ephron's brilliant take down of marital and familial pretense.

—Publisher's Weekly

Advance Praise–

SIRACUSA is an Italian aria, a Greek tragedy and a modern American masterpiece written by Delia Ephron at the height of her powers. This is a story of two complicated marriages, one vulnerable child and a trip to Italy that changes each of their lives forever. Secrets, lies, love raging, love dying and the shame of unrealized potential are exposed in detail under the Sicilian sun.
—Adriana Trigiani

Delia Ephron’s Siracusa is a stunning portrait of two marriages coming unraveled during the stress of travel abroad. Insightful and engaging. A must read!
—Sue Grafton

New York Times Best Seller!

Isn’t It Romantic?: Delia Ephron’s novel “Siracusa,” new at No. 16 on the hardcover fiction list, follows two unhappily married couples on an Italian vacation. Ephron herself visited the title city (in Sicily) almost a decade ago, she told a Chicago newspaper recently. “I thought it’s the most magical place I’ve ever been,” she said. “It immediately seemed to me like the most perfect setting for a novel where couples go on vacation and because of the problems in their marriages things get catastrophic.”

Articles

It’s a Whole New Paranoid World

Published in the New York Times Sunday Review

THERE is probably nothing about me that is not in the hands of hackers.

First, JPMorgan Chase, where I have a bank account, got hacked, then Sony, where I have worked as a screenwriter, then Morgan Stanley, where I have a brokerage account, then Anthem Blue Cross, which has my medical ...

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My Hollywood

Published in Vanity Fair

When I was a child growing up in Los Angeles, I was completely confused about Hollywood. I would watch television quiz shows. Contestants would win a free trip to Hollywood. I would think, Why do they want to go ...

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Ouch. My Personality, Reviewed.

Published in the New York Times SundayReview

The other week I was riding crosstown in an Uber car, chatting with the very nice driver about how much I liked Uber, and the driver said, by way of being helpful, I believe, “You have a 4.5 rating. If it drops to 4.0, no driver will pick you ...

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