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SUMMARY:Meredith May - - The Honey Bus
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Meredith May to discuss her new new book The Honey Bus\, on Tuesday\, April 2nd at 7pm. \nAn extraordinary story of a girl\, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old\, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather\, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May\, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes\, in the secret world of bees.May turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself\, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature.The bees became a guiding force in May’s life\, teaching her about family and community\, loyalty and survival and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. Part memoir\, part beekeeping odyssey\, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places\, and how a tiny\, little-understood insect could save a life. \n  \n* * * \n  \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMeredith May is an award-winning journalist and fifth-generation beekeeper. \nDuring her sixteen-year career at the San Francisco Chronicle\, her reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism\, the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism\, and first place feature writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Associated Press. Her series about an Iraqi boy wounded during the second Gulf War was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. \nMeredith is a former professor of  journalism and podcasting at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. She lives in San Francisco\, where she rows on the Bay and cares for several beehives in a community garden. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, April 2\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
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LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Nathan Englander / Kaddish.com
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Pulitzer finalist Nathan Englander for his new novel\, Kaddish.com. More information to come\, but save the date and join us! \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St.\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nLarry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies\, it is his responsibility as the surviving son to recite the Kaddish\, the Jewish prayer for the dead\, every day for eleven months. To the horror and dismay of his mother and sisters\, Larry refuses – thus imperiling the fate of his father’s soul. To appease them\, and in penance for failing to mourn his father correctly\, he hatches an ingenious if cynical plan\, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the daily prayer and shepherd his fathers soul safely to rest. \nThis is Nathan Englander’s freshest and funniest work to date: a satire that touches\, lightly and with unforgettable humor\, on the conflict between religious and secular worlds\, and the hypocrisies that run through both. A novel about atonement; about spiritual redemption; and about the soul-sickening temptations of the internet\, which\, like God\, is everywhere. \n  \n\nNathan Englander is the author of the novels Dinner at the Center of the Earth and The Ministry of Special Cases\, and the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank\, winner of the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His short fiction has been widely anthologized\, most recently in 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. His play The Twenty-Seventh Man premiered at The Public Theater in 2012. He also translated the New American Haggadah and co-translated Etgar Keret’s Suddenly a Knock on the Door. He is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University and lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, with his wife and daughter.\n  \nPlease note\n– Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n– Signing and additional details coming soon. \n– This event is all ages. RSVP is appreciated but not necessary. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n– If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Kaddish.com\, and/or any of Nathan’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
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LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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