It is a common complaint that marriage changes people. For Nadia Chaabani, that fear was real: “A knot tightened around my heart. It was so strong that as soon as Ahmed was out of the room I started screaming to keep from... Read More

The author was twenty-one years old when she set out to see the world. After a spur-of-the-moment wedding at a Berkeley tea shop in 1971, Schur and her new husband embarked on an eighteen-month-long honeymoon through five continents and... Read More

If home is where the heart is and love is blind, then many are left wandering. Such could be said of Tollie Ervin, the protagonist of the author’s second novel, about four thirty-something siblings who reunite after years of... Read More

Anyone who has ever packed a suitcase knows that the items we treasure most-Grandpa’s broken wristwatch, Aunt Ida’s chipped cameo-possess a value that transcends their practical use. Emotional connection with objects is the primary... Read More