Braided

2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner in Women's Issues Nonfiction2020 Eric Hoffer Award, Grand Prize Shortlist Finalist2019 Wilbur Award, Nonfiction Winner2018 Foreword INDIES Winner, Self-Help2018 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies, FinalistWhat if you could bake bread once a week, every week? What if the smell of fresh bread could turn your house into a home? And what if the act of making the bread-mixing and kneading, watching and waiting-could heal your heartache and your emptiness, your sense of being overwhelmed? It can. This is the surprise that physician-mother Beth Ricanati learned when she started baking challah: that simply stopping and baking bread was the best medicine she could prescribe for women in a fast-paced world.