Red Room Where the Writers Are

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera proposes that vertigo is not the fear of falling off a building, but of jumping off. We are never sure how in control we are.

I am a recently divorced thirty-eight-year-old mother of two, and my sister is an aspiring yenta, hence her enthusiastic call one day to say she met a man she wanted to introduce to me.

In the back of the July 2008 Good Housekeeping Magazine, is a little excerpt from my forthcoming memoir, Country of Origin.