Sanctuary, Vermont Author|Susan Goldfein I had been conditioned to

I had been conditioned to believe that we have to change our behavior first

Nati Smith lives in Santa Barbara

managing to create a meaningful ritual text while also remaining fun and attractive for the youngest participants attending the family seder… I can imagine many young families using this Haggadah both as a read-aloud introduction to Passover and as their actual family Haggadah during the seder…” —Jessica DeYoung Kander

Lyrically told and meticulously researched

a glimpse into an archive of survival

Sanctuary, Vermont Author|Susan Goldfein I had been conditioned to"Wisniewskis debut builds to a novelistic sense of place and plenitude with shades of Thornton Wilder or Edgar Lee Masters." The New York Times Book Review Selected as the winner of The 2020 Orison Poetry Prize by Katie Ford, Sanctuary, Vermont gives voice to present, past, and future residents of a richly imagined Vermont town. Laura Budofsky Wisniewski joins the lineage of Edgar Lee Masters, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Louise Glck in inhabiting and