Local Writers Reading

Deva Arani is the author of The Mother Ache: Healing the Wounded Daughter Within and Integration Alchemy: The Real Ceremony Is Your Life, published by Sentient Publications and distributed by Simon & Schuster. Drawing upon more than twenty years of embodied and contemplative practice, her writing explores healing, belonging, and our return to a more reciprocal relationship with ourselves, one another, and the living world.

Arani will read from The Mother Ache about why healing the mother wound matters not only in our individual lives and relationships, but also in how we care for one another and the living planet.

Norman Simon grew up in New York City. Following postgraduate education, he assumed a professorial position teaching and conducting research in astrophysics. In addition to many articles in scientific journals, he has published several short stories, and a number of his plays have been produced or given staged readings in the Midwest and elsewhere. This is his first story collection.

Katherine is a strange Bronx girl who "hears" the voices of the constellations. Abetted by a building super and a disgraced NASA administrator, she becomes a revered faith healer, only to be betrayed by her inner voice, when it tells her to have a child.