About the Author
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About Ruhama Veltfort
Ruhama Veltfort’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Whispering Campaign, The Antrim Review, The Noe Valley Voice, Sound Journal, and Moonfish. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Whispers of a Dreamer (Hollow Reed Press, 1983) and Miles on the Bridge (Wordrunner Chapbooks, 1997), and a novel, The Promised Land (Milkweed Editions, 1998). Her memoir, The Things We Do for Love: Stories of My Life has just been released (June 2010). She lives in San Francisco, California. |
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The Things We Do for LoveRuhama Veltfort was a young Barnard graduate living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan when she gave up her newborn son for adoption. Thirty-one years later, she discovered that he was living only five blocks away from her home in San Francisco’s Mission District. With tenderness and wry humor, these fourteen well-observed stories trace the roots of that cycle of relinquishment and reunion, offering an intimate perspective on the social transformations of the mid-to-late twentieth century. Lovers, husbands, children and a “rag-tag band of seekers and screwballs” wind their way through this vivid and even-handed memoir of a Bohemian “red-diaper” childhood in 1950’s California, a rebellious coming-of-age in the earliest days of the Grateful Dead and an Ivy League education gone sour. Universal themes of idealism, betrayal and redemption weave through a moving account of the author’s adventures in political activism and the human potential movement to culminate in a maturity graced by family, friends and an eclectic spirituality. Contact Ruhama: ruhama@ruhamaveltfort.com |
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