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very unusual for a reader and writer
like Roiphe, but her concentration was
cracked. As she explains, "What was
going on in my head was all I could
deal with." When she was able to read
again, she turned to the same sorts of
good books she had sought out earlier,
rather than books on mourning.
"While I hope this book will be a
comfort:' she says, "I'm more interest-
ed in it being an interest. I wrote it so
that people would know more about
this experience, so that I could know
more about this experienc'
"It's not a how-to book:' she insists.
"I don't know how"
Roiphe found Judaism "enormously
helpful in mourning — the way fam-
ily comes together in ritual, the not
being alone, the sense of belonging
to something, the sense of being of
a place and having a place. I didn't
always have this. I came to it from a
secular place'
A contributing editor to the
Jerusalem Report, she was very close
to the late scholar, writer and teacher
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, who's the
person she would turn to were he here
today. Although she's now not affili-
ated with a synagogue, she is thinking
about joining one.
"In telling my story as personally as
I did;' she says, "I think I am offering a
kind of friendship to my readers, and
I hope that friendship will be helpful."
She always misses her soul mate,
but assures readers that she will be
fine. She writes, "I will miss the unsaid
things that passed between H. and me.
But I will manage without them. I will
make new friends in unexpected plac-
es.... I will not let grief become my
constant companion. I will refuse its
offer to accompany me to the corner,
to the night, to the next month." ❑
Anne Roiphe appears noon
Thursday, Nov.13, as part of the
JCC's Jewish Book Fair Lunch
with the Authors program.
www.jccdet.org .
"My spiritual metabolism is
entwined in my music. I guess
you could say I'm more spiri-
tually awake than religiously
awake."
Finishing MOT's short fall
season, sponsored by Ford
Motor Company, will be an all-
time operatic favorite, Puccini's
Madame Butterfly, Nov. 15-23.
Soprano Ermonela Jaho will
alternate the title role with
Chinese soprano Shu-Ying Li.
Richard Danielpour
Tenor James Valenti will alter-
nate the Lt. B.F. Pinkerton role
with David Pomeroy.
Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci, a new pro-
The spring season, sponsored by
duction created by Jewish director
Cadillac, features Donizetti's The
Bernard Uzan, April 18-26; and Bizet's
Elixir of Love, March 28-April 5;
Carmen, May 5-17. ❑
Margaret Garner gets an early 6 p.m. starting time for the opening of
MOT's fall opera season Saturday, Oct.18, at the Detroit Opera House,
1526 Broadway. A gala supper follows. Other performances are at 2:30
p.m. Sunday, Oct.19; 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22; 7:30 p.m. Friday,
Oct. 24; and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25. $28-$120. Tickets and infor-
mation: (313) 237-7464 or www.MichiganOpera.org .
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