Small Press Review praises The Rescuer’s Path
I’m happy to tell you that the prestigious and nationally distributed Small Press Review praises my new novel, The Rescuer’s Path, very glowingly–mostly–in the Jan.-Feb. 2012 issue. Here’s the review;...
View ArticleSpring Oregon Readings–The Rescuer’s Path
You are invited! Three Oregon readings now scheduled for The Rescuer’s Path, my new novel of the antiwar movement, the struggle for justice, an adoption reunion, and the love between a Holocaust...
View Article‘unwed mothers’ and other outlaws: April 28 reading/discussion at Portland’s...
I’m excited to be reading from my novel The Rescuer’s Path and leading a very related discussion, “‘Unwed mothers’ and other outlaws: Nonconforming mothers, single pregnancy, social activism–then and...
View ArticleAuthors among Us–Reading in White Salmon, WA, May 12
Authors among Us A reading and booksigning by authors Paula Friedman, Miralee Ferrell, and Sheila Simonson May 12, 2012, 2 pm, White Salmon Valley Community Library, 77 NE Wauna Avenue, White Salmon,...
View ArticleReading and Booksigning in Welches, on Mount Hood, June 15
Come join us for my reading from The Rescuer’s Path in Welches, OR, June 15, 2012, 7:30 pm, Wy’East Book Shoppe and Art Gallery, in the woodsy mall at Highway 26 one block west of the Welches traffic...
View ArticleDeering the Unknown, Blogging the Books
After reading at the warm and wondrous Wy’East Book Shoppe in Welches (Oregon) on Mount Hood last weekend, I started driving home in the dusk and hit a deer. I am fine, the car will be fine, and the...
View ArticleIn recent novel, young antiwar lovers flee police to wilderness
The recent page-turning novel The Rescuer’s Path recounts a tale of lovers struggling against an unjust, war-making society. The Rescuer’s Path is the tale of a Holocaust survivor’s young daughter who,...
View ArticleRemembering the Cuban Crisis
I was fresh out of college, new to Berkeley. The woman in the next apartment had her radio on that evening and invited me in to hear Kennedy’s speech; people commented how well-phrased it was. The...
View ArticleFinding oneself in the late-1960s antiwar movement
With the Occupies and the growing third-party movements as elections near, this year, we are reminded of the days of hope, the time we call “the Sixties.” For many of us, this time was primarily, or...
View ArticleRemembering November 3rd
Very strangely, it was only after I got back in touch with an old boyfriend and friend from my pre-Jurassic college days that I learned, from one of his chance comments, that the “possibly correct”...
View ArticleAuthor Readings in Berkeley, California, June 13 and 14
This longtime Bay Area activist will be in Berkeley, California, to read and sign copies of my recent novel, The Rescuer’s Path, on June 13 and June 14. Be great to see you at either reading; both...
View ArticleConfronting sociopolitical denial
“It’s fine–I’m fine–everything’s fine,” says Theo parodically (Theo is the hero in Cuaron’s politically brilliant film Children of Men), whenever something particularly terrible occurs. For indeed...
View ArticleReunion–a mother and child reunite
REUNION, OR THE HOLE IN TIME Copyright 2014 by Paula Friedman Number 3—on the door was the large number 3. The woman opened it; I stepped inside. I said “You’re my kid.” He had risen. There were tears...
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