From Outlaw to In-Law: How Multicultural Interfaith Couples Can Become Agents for Social Change, Wiph & Stock Publishers, 2024, is available for purchase at your favorite booksellers.

Working full time and publishing a book is quite thing to manage. My book launch has been more of a nudge into the water that some big splash! Earlier this year I had my first foray into sharing my writing and had the joy of a book signing at Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord, New Hampshire. I will have the official launch with a panel discussion at our local synagogue Temple Beth Jacob in June 7th!

The most exciting part for me sharing about my book with new audiences is learning how universal and pervasive conflict and culture wars are in our lives today. Thoughts of whom do we trust and whom do we fear seems to be lurking just under the surface. Everyday life for multicultural interfaith couples includes being met with suspicion based on race or religion, nationality or language, or some other aspect of their shared multiple identities. When we begin notice that we also experience fear of the stranger or regard those whom are different than with suspicion, we can begin to perceive the nature of the stereotypes, prejudices, and micro-aggressions that interracial and interfaith couples may face. My book helps us see the reasons for those reactions and to discover new ways of relating to people whom we may perceive as a threat to our way of life.