For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors by Laura Esther Wolfson (University of Iowa Press, 2018) is a series of vivid, humorous, and deep linked memoirs by a literary translator turned writer about language, translation, relationships and their failure, regret in late middle age, Vilnius, studying Yiddish. The book was awarded the 2017 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. For a review of the book, go HERE.