NOELLE OXENHANDLER
Thursday, July 17 at 7:30 p.m.

A writer whose books include A Grief Out of Season and The Eros of Parenthood and whose taught writing in northern California, Noelle Oxenhandler, upon turning fifty, set about to find lasting love, a home to call her own, and some sort of inner tranquility. She set about this most centrally via wishing. In The Wishing Year: An Experiment in Desire (Random House), she chronicles a year of wishing, and how wishing seems to work in the universe. "Oxenhandler, whose essays have been published in The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine, knew the time had come to make changes in her life ... For this memoir, Oxenhandler researched anything and everything having to do with wishing, from the ancients' ideas on wishful thinking to current notions on 'the laws of attraction ... The ways her wishes came true make for both joyful and humorous reading." - Library Journal. "A book that beautifully illuminates the art and mystery of wishing—and it does so in a way that is inspiring. Funny, serious, honest, heartfelt, and irresistibly readable." - Jack Kornfield.

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