'Left on Tenth' is infused with Delia Ephron's Jewish identity

The Forward: After Ephron’s first husband Jerome Kass died in 2016, Ephron called Verizon to cancel his landline telephone. The company put her on hold for three hours and pinballed her between various service assistants. Ephron’s call prompted her to write a viral New York Times op-ed about her frustrations. The essay appeared again in Ephron’s 2022 memoir, where it sets in motion a story about Ephron falling in love again with a psychotherapist named Peter Rutter, only for her to be soon thereafter diagnosed with leukemia.