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December 10 s 2009
"One of my favorite places to take
my cookies is to Chanukah par-
ties. The cookies are not just for
Ann Arbor
Christmas; they're for holidays. The
people at the Chanukah parties love
nn Pearlman, whose great-
the cookies."
grandfather was a German-
Pearlman, born in Wahington,
trained baker, loves to cook D.C., and raised in Chicago and
and cook up stories.
Pittsburgh, studied at the University
While two of her cookie recipes
of Pittsburgh, the University of Iowa
have been adapted for the gour-
and Case Western Reserve to become
met baked-goods array offered by
a therapist. She moved to Ann Arbor
Zingerman's Deli in Ann Arbor, her
in 1977, when her former husband
experiences as a member of a baking
was a University of Michigan pro-
circle of friends have been morphed
fessor. Her family of three grown
into the new novel The Christmas
children and four grandchildren is
Cookie Club (Atria Books;
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scattered.
$24.99).
Pearlman, who
"I was very excited
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writes in the morning
about finally getting into
and sees clients in the
my Ann Arbor cookie
afternoon, started out
club in 2000 because I
writing books about
had wanted to join for a
counseling. Her first,
number of years," says
Getting Free: Women in
Pearlman, 67, looking
Psychotherapy, was com-
forward to the book
pleted with other profes-
being made into a
sionals. Keep the Home
TV film by producer
-f t Fires Burning explores sex
Wendy Finerman
for long term couples.
(The Devil Wears
Infidelity: A Love Story,
Prada and Forrest Gump).
nominated for a Pulitzer
"The club had been full, but finally
Prize, recalls betrayals in three gen-
someone dropped out so I could
erations of the author's family.
enter. From that time, I realized that
As a result of being a therapist,
the cookie club would be a great set-
I have a diverse and rich idea of
ting for a novel."
people's lives — how strong we are
Pearlman's book, with one Jewish
and how much we're able to endure!'
character, tells about a group of
Pearlman says.
friends who meet every December to
"I've been writing fiction since I
exchange cookies and recipes, each
was a teenager, and I have pages of
allotting one batch for charity. While
romantic descriptions from back in
partying, they catch up on the others' those days. Some of my short stories
personal lives, celebrating the joys of
have won small literary prizes. I've
romance and new babies and offering had other novels that I've completed
solace for the sorrows of infidelities
but didn't get published."
and bankruptcies.
While Pearlman set her book in
While the tales are fiction, the fea-
Ann Arbor to make some positive
tured recipes (including several for
statements about Michigan in tough
Chanukah) are very real as are the
times, she also had a more personal
intermittent social histories of baking motive for readers.
ingredients.
"I hope they can appreciate how
"I included a Jewish character
much each of us is capable of change
because I may be the only Jewish
and growth:' she says. "Positive things
person in my club!' Pearlman says.
can happen if we work to make them
"One of the messages of the book
happen, and other people are impor-
has to do with community and being
tant in that process!' I I
ecumenical.
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