Book Talk:
“Milkweed & Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments”
with author Wendy Horwitz
Sunday, March 9
10:00 AM, Temin Canteen Room
Please join local author and GJC member Wendy Horwitz as she reads from her new book, Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments. With tales of celebration, loss, change, and the best way to open a pomegranate, her memoir is a meditation on our desire for meaning and the story of one woman’s lifelong efforts to create it. Enjoy brunch, Q&A, and book-signing.
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In Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments, Wendy Horwitz explores how ritual can exalt ordinary moments and frame the extraordinary. With observations from nature, religion, and literature, she tells stories about celebration, loss, change, and the best way to open a pomegranate. Lyrical and funny, thought-provoking and deeply moving, this book is at once a meditation on our desire for meaning and the story of a woman’s lifelong efforts to create it.
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Wendy A. Horwitz is the author of Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments. Her essays have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Afterimage, Neurology (Humanities Section), Jewish Literary Journal, Intrepid Times, and McClatchy-Tribune News Service, among others. Originally trained as a pediatric psychologist, she lives in Philadelphia, where she teaches writing and health humanities.
