Living on Their Own Terms: Readings from Three Memoirs

Life Without a Recipe is Diana Abu-Jaber’s memoir of journeying without a map, of learning to ignore the script and improvise, of escaping family and making family on one’s own terms. In Betsy Lerner’s The Bridge Ladies, readers are taken on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life. From Elissa Altman, the Washington Post columnist and James Beard Award-winning author, comes Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw, a story of seeking truth, acceptance, and self in a world of contradiction.