Rhoda Lerman, "whose critically praised novels melded history with contemporaneity, mythology with social criticism, feminism with a Jewish sensibility and snark with seriousness," died August 30, the New York Times reported. She was 79. Lerman's books include novels Call Me Ishtar, The Girl That He Marries, Eleanor, The Book of the Night and God's Ear and a nonfiction work Elsa Was Born a Dog, I Was Born a Human... Things Have Changed.
