Forest Walk on a Friday

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Since she was six years old Lynne (Cohn Schreiber) Golodner has turned to writing to make sense of the world figure out her feelings and process experiences. In this riveting heart-spilling collection of personal essays Lynne takes the reader on a journey with her through travel religious exploration parenting relationships and intimate encounters with the natural world. </span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Forest Walk on a Friday</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> contains 28 essays-20 of which have been previously published in literary journals and magazines-articulating the ache of lost love embarking on a soul journey to find happiness alone on a mountaintop making peace with the loss of a father and examining what work is.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Detroit-based author of award-winning novels poetry collections and nonfiction books Lynne opens her heart to readers in a daring and brave way inviting them to contemplate how humans find happiness and what makes life worth living. As with all of her books Lynne shares the beauty of her Jewish identity and the ancestry she inherited through food visits with beloved relatives and quiet walks in the cemetery to visit those she's lost.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She details her two marriages showcasing the courage it took to leave one that didn't work and sharing the gratitude she found in discovering new love at midlife. As a parent of four children Lynne is candid about the joys and challenges of being an attentive parent and the emotions that come with letting go of her grown children as they prepare to leave home.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And Lynne writes about connecting with the earth finding herself in the soil and on the river and discovering the happiness of coming home to oneself. Readers will salivate over descriptions of oysters fresh from the ocean just-picked strawberries staining mouths with their sweetness blueberries bursting off the bush and the familiarity of a grandmother's chicken soup fragrant and flavorful.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Forest Walk on a Friday</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is an exquisite wander through one woman's life offering universal lessons about how to be happy with what you have how to cherish the identity you inherit and how to be open to possibility as one walks through life.</span></p>