From My Button Box - by Judith Bruder (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Remember the joy of being held on Grandmother's lap and listening to a story? Or being at home sick from school, and getting to play with the buttons in her button box?

Here are 50 "buttons" for you- thoughts, ideas, memories, musings - a harvest of 8 9 years of stories and conversations.

Originally recorded as podcasts during the pandemic, these essays by Judith Bruder are as colorful and varied as buttons in a button box, reflecting our tumultuous times while looking forward to a brighter future. Read at your own pace, or listen to the original podcasts using the accompanying QR codes.or at www.judithbruder.com.

Review Quotes

"There's a gracious tenacity to these essays, an elegant insistence that meaning can be found amid loss, whether of a dear husband of fifty-eight years, or of sustaining companionship during a pandemic, or of a seemingly endless future in an octogenarian's life. We need only explore the rich landscape of remembrance, unearthing the joyful epiphanies that have enriched our lives with each passing year. Judith Bruder has given distinctive voice to this landscape, as resonant as the Brooklyn of her youth, honest and courageous, hopeful and inspiring, eloquent and wise."

- Robert Braile, former book critic, The Boston Globe