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Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs
Beth Ricanati is impressive. An Ivy League graduate, a practicing medical doctor, a mother, a wife, a writer, a clinician at prestigious hospitals, she presents as super-woman. Even as she describes sneaking glances at her Blackberry at a mother-and-child Hebrew class, we know she has it all, right? […]
Reviewed by: D Ferrara
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An Interview with Doris Weatherford
Interviewed by: Pat Bean
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Tags: Good Books, History, Our Favorite Authors, Sarton winner, Women's rights
Tags: Good Books, History, Our Favorite Authors, Sarton winner, Women's rights
Fiction
Both Are True
Some people are just not meant to be together, even though they try to make a relationship work. Reyna Marder Gentin explores the theme of true partners in her novel Both Are True. Jackie returns home from a difficult day on the New York Family court bench to […]
Reviewed by: Janilyn Kocher
Inspirational
Creatrix Rising: Unlocking the Power of Midlife Women
Creatrix Rising is a celebration of the later years of women. Instead of allowing our traditionally male-dominant society to define older women as “crones” or “washed up” and useless, Raffelock suggests a new archetype for ourselves: creatrix. Raffelock defines creatrix as “a woman who makes things.” As the […]
Memoir and Autobiography
I Hear the Black Raven
“I’ve noticed that there are at least two perks to having a mental illness: I get to use mind-altering drugs legally, and I get to take frequent breaks from reality.” This observation by author Claire Ishi Ayetoro provides a startling abstract of the events that served to transform […]