Fifty-Fifty Leadership
&
UNA Pasadena
Presents
Kelly Hayes-Raitt
Tales of a Female Nomad
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Armory Center for The arts
145 N Raymond
Pasadena, CA 91103
Kelly Hayes-Raitt will read her recently published essays about her trips to Iraq at the Armory Center For The Arts, 145 N. Raymond, Pasadena at 7:00 p.m. Her essays appeared last month in Random House's "Female Nomad & Friends," which will be on sale and available for signing. Proceeds from the book sales support vocational scholarships for Indian slum children.
"'Female Nomad & Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World' is a scrumptious summer read that celebrates traveling, connecting and eating around the world," Hayes-Raitt said of the new book.
It became available June 1 from Random House/A Three Rivers Press Original. "Female Nomad & Friends" is Rita Golden Gelman's sequel to her underground hit "Tales of a Female Nomad."
When "Tales of a Female Nomad" was published in 2001, it became an instant worldwide bestseller. The story of Gelman selling all her possessions and becoming a nomad - traveling through many countries and homes around the world - captivated readers.
In her follow-up, "Female Nomad & Friends," Gelman includes many of her own further adventures, as well as essays by writers and readers celebrating the connections they've made around the world. The stories in this moving anthology include people taking risks, seeking adventure, stepping out of the box, and discovering that beneath the beautiful differences that make us unique there is a universal sameness that bonds us.
"Female Nomad & Friends" also pays homage to the wonders of cooking and eating around the world, and includes 33 travel-inspired, taste-tested, author-approved recipes. Among these international dishes are vegetarian dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), chiles en nogada (stuffed poblano chiles topped with a white cream sauce with walnuts), and ho mok (a fish coconut custard from Thailand).
Hayes-Raitt has three essays in the anthology, two of which are about her pre- and post-invasion trips to Iraq. "Tongue-Tied" is the poignant story of a beggar girl Hayes-Raitt befriended a month before the war and found three months later. While war raged around them, they shared an ice cream. This essay recently was awarded Honorable Mention in a San Francisco literary contest and has been named "editor's choice" by the publishers of Traveler's Tales books. The author has read this essay to dozens of audiences in nine states, Guam and Mexico.
While writing her own book about her experiences with Iraqi refugees, Hayes-Raitt has made herself a nomad of sorts, traveling around North America housesitting and living in writers' colonies for the past two years while she rents out her own home in Santa Monica, Calif., to finance her writing. She most recently has been housesitting in Ajijic, Mexico.
Her bio is on her blog at http://www.peacepathfoundation.org/.
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