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Best-selling author Anita Diamant will join Rockport businesses Wordsmithie and Susies Stories, collectively known as Ode to The Toad, to discuss her writing and her life, including what inspires her about Cape Ann, where many of her books are set.  She is the author of thirteen books, most recently Period.  End of Sentence., the New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice.  Her first novel, New York Times bestseller, The Red Tent, has been published in more than 25 countries.  Her other novels include The Boston Girl, Day after Night, The Last Days of Dogtown, and Good Harbor.

Diamant is the author of six non-fiction guides to contemporary Jewish life, including The Jewish Wedding Now, Living a Jewish Life, and Saying Kaddish, as well as a collection of essays, Pitching my Tent.  An award-winning journalist, her work has appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine, Real Simple, Parenting, Boston Magazine, and Cognoscenti, the online ideas and opinion page of WBUR-FM.  Anita is also the founding president of Mayyim Hayyim Living Waters Community Mikveh and Education Center:  a 21st century reinvention of the ancient tradition of immersion for all Jews and those becoming Jewish.  She lives in the Boston area.