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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
Recent Reviews
Fiction
Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road
The thirteen stories in Marion Quednau’s collection are humorous as well as unsettling, and they definitely draw a reader in—sometimes to sympathize and sometimes because suspicion is aroused. And sometimes for pure delight. I find it fascinating to note where the stories are situated: not on the mountain […]
Inspirational
the moon won’t be dared
Anne Leigh Parrish’s first anthology, entitled the moon won’t be dared, is a beautiful collection of ponderings, noticings, and recollections from our ever changing modern world. The poet dispenses with conventions such as capital letters, allowing her words to flow like a river over pebbles of insight. In […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Ready from Within
Ready from Within—think about that title. It describes the core values of Septima Poinsette Clark. Nothing deterred her from her goal to educate fellow Black citizens and further their opportunity to vote. Her work and her name have been overlooked in the history of the modern civil rights […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography, Nonfiction
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, Our times, Race relations
Tags: Author of Color, Good Books, Our times, Race relations
Getting Off the Radiator: A Story of Shame, Guilt, & Forgiveness
I get excited at the prospect of a fresh read. When I spied this title, I immediately honed in on Dorothy Preston’s memoir. It is chocked with a full spectrum of emotions. Getting Off the Radiator is an emotionally wrenching read. Preston is the youngest of seven siblings. […]
Poetry
Red List Blue
I shape a lamp from hammered copper and place it in the space. I leave it with the switch clicked on and wait—sunlight pours onto the floor. All through the room it spreads—the light. ~From the poem “Making Light.” The collection of forty-two poems in Red […]