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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world,” James Baldwin wrote, “but then you read.” That line has shaped both my writing and my work as a therapist. Stories remind us we are not alone—even when our experiences feel singular.

I’m a memoirist and psychotherapist in Boston. My debut memoir, If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets, examines emotional inheritance, marriage, and what it means to begin again in one’s 60s. The book has been featured in The New York Times’ “Modern Love,” Vulture, and HuffPost, and has become one of the top-ranked divorce titles on Amazon.

I’m also the author of the novel As If Women Mattered, inspired by the exhilaration and upheaval of the women’s movement. My essays have ap
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Riverrun Bookstore in Portsmouth, NH, hosted the winners of the Piscataqua Press 2014 novel contest.  The room was crowded, the air conditioning struggled – but everyone was so excited, the atmosphere crackled with energy. My cowinners, Catherine Geiger who read from her book The Witch Market and Ben Schwartz who read from his book The Drift of Things, rocked the house.  And their books are wonde

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message 1: by Bruce

Bruce I'm getting the feeling you really like Barbara Kingsolver. My wife also really likes her. I haven't read any of her books yet but would like to. Which do you think was her best. Aslo what were your two or three favorite books that you read in the last year?


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