Noelle Oxenhandler

Fairfield Cluster Adult Summer Reading Program Author Event 2009 Saturday, July 25, 2009 2-3 p.m. Fairfield Civic Center Library Solano County Library 1150 Kentucky Street Fairfield, CA Becker-Balmer Meeting Room 1-866-572-7587 Make a Wish, Put It Out There and Meet Noelle Oxenhandler! Does wishing have ... (more)power? Are some wishes more worthy than others? Noelle Oxenhandler, author of The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul: A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire (Random House, 2008) will give a lively talk about the importance of wishes in shaping our lives, the courage it takes to make a wish, and open oneself to the unknown. Her memoir will discuss her own journey towards self-discovery. The author will be available to sign copies of her book. Ms. Oxenhandler is also the author of A Grief Out of Season and The Eros of Parenthood. Her essays have appeared in many national and literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and O: The Oprah Magazine. She is a member of the creative writing faculty at Sonoma State University in California and has been a practicing Buddhist for more than thirty years. Sponsored by the Friends of the Fairfield and Suisun City Libraries.

On New Year’s Day, Noelle Oxenhandler took stock of her life and found that she was alone after a long marriage, seemingly doomed to perpetual house rental, and separated from the spiritual community that had once sustained her. With little left to lose, she launched a year’s experimentation in desire, ... (more)forcing herself to take the plunge and try the path of Putting It Out There. Thus began her initiation into the art of wishing brazenly. Join us as Oxenhandler shares her memoir, which is both comic and poignant, light and dark, earthy and spiritual.

Noelle Oxenhandler will speak and sign THE WISHING YEAR.

A writer whose books include A Grief Out of Season and The Eros of Parenthood and whose taught writing in northern California, Noelle Oxenhandler, upon turning fifty, set about to find lasting love, a home to call her own, and some sort of inner tranquility. She set about this most centrally via wishing. ... (more)In The Wishing Year: An Experiment in Desire (Random House), she chronicles a year of wishing, and how wishing seems to work in the universe.