Barbara Becker's new memoir Heartwood is a gorgeous exploration of living and dying and dying well and living well-- the exchange between the ideas behind a good life and death are gorgeously written by Becker who is generous with her love, mindfulness and spirit, and well edited with her prose.  

Barbara Becker is a writer and interfaith minister who has dedicated over 25 years to partnering with human rights advocates around the world in pursuit of peace, spirituality, and everyday mindfulness. She has worked with the United Nations, Human Rights First, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, and has participated in a delegation of Zen Peacemakers and Lakota elders in the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota

Joanna Rakoff is the author of the international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year and the novel A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction, the Elle Readers’ Prize, and a San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller.

Join us for a conversation with Barbara and Joanna as they dive into the ocean of life, death, parenthood, and whatever else they might discover as the evening unfolds.

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