Recipes for Grief Book Launch

Please join us virtually to celebrate the book launch of Recipes for Grief by Jonathan Wlodarski, as well as readings from Abode authors including M.K. Thekkumkattil and Devaki D Devi. The link to the virtual launch will be sent in the email confirmation after RSVP'ing. We look forward to seeing you virtually there!

Recipes for Grief by Jonathan Wlodarski is a collection of three surreal stories where food and mourning become inseparable. In "The Cake," a funeral cake slowly drives an isolated town to sacrifice itself for one more taste. In "Spider Lung," a caterer who coughs up spiders confronts grief, illness, and the limits of medicine must decide how he wants to face his own death. In "The Bread and the Bird," a son struggles to preserve his family's magical bakery while caring for his abusive, dying father. Through strange, unsettling worlds, these stories explore what we consume to survive…