Can I Have Santa PLUS the Bagel Guy?
Stories abound of Jewish people who grow up warm and secure in their faith. Those for whom the eight days of Hanukah didn’t compete with Christmas: Jewish nurses, firefighters, and
Annabel fights for justice while her daughter, Ivy, craves normalcy—until idealism collides with reality, bringing tragic consequences.
The story begins in 1964 during Freedom Summer in Mississippi when the disappearance of Annabel’s first love sparks a lifelong fight for justice—the novel follows five couples and their seven children from the 1960s to 2020 through the turbulence of civil rights, Vietnam, feminism, and communal living as profoundly personal and political struggles intertwine across generations.
Stories abound of Jewish people who grow up warm and secure in their faith. Those for whom the eight days of Hanukah didn’t compete with Christmas: Jewish nurses, firefighters, and
This Older Woman Talking to the Younger Women in the Room (what I should have said) Sunday night, I had the pleasure of gathering with fifteen brilliant women (writer-friends) to
Yesterday, while playing bumper carts in Wegmans, fearful I wouldn’t find shredded carrots (oh, the agony of having to shred with my own hands!) I fumed at carts left unattended,
When I was newly married—at 19, no less— my then-husband and I moved to a farm between Binghamton and Ithaca, New York. His job was being a farmhand. Mine was reading