Edible Stories
Riverhead Books, November 2010.
Fiction. A collection of interconnected short stories with recurring characters, each story is about someone’s obsession with a particular food. Stories include Hot Dogs, Bean Curd, Icing, The Soup, Belons, Espresso, and others, through out the world but all culminating in the final story in Seattle.
A biography of Jewish Baseball great Hank Greenberg.
Yale University Press, 2011.
Part of a new Yale series on Jewish lives this is the story of how Greenberg, without wishing to, became a Jewish icon, and of the relationship of Jews to sports in America.
The World Without Fish
Workman, 2011
Children's Book. Explains the current crisis in the oceans and through a graphic novel shows the frightening tragedy of a sea devoid of fish and the impact of that sad outcome.
For a Doubleday series on inventors
A biography of Clarence Birdseye, the inventor of frozen food and one of the last of the eccentric inventors who solved problems with odd scraps in his basement.
My War
Bloomsbury, 2011.
A young adult novel about a boy born in the shadow of World War II. His childhood is all about war and he believes that when he comes of age there will be a war waiting for him. There is, in a place called Vietnam and he struggles with a growing feeling that his war is wrong, maybe all war is wrong.