50 Days in May

In short lyrical prose and poems, the author considers her pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago. Her reflections touch on birds, Columbus and Isabella, a pilgrim’s death, being Jewish in Spain, the hero’s journey, the mythic and symbolic, meditation, the quest for balance in the pilgrim and the pilgrimage, and the malleability of story. Her memoir, Cancer, Kintsugi, Camino, won a 2023 Firebird Book Award.