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Molly Wizenberg

Biography

Molly Wizenberg

Molly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books: A HOMEMADE LIFE and DELANCEY, and the James Beard Award-winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post, the Guardian, Saveur and Bon Appétit, and she also cohosts the podcast "Spilled Milk." With chef Brandon Pettit, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex.

Molly Wizenberg

Books by Molly Wizenberg

by Molly Wizenberg - Memoir, Nonfiction

At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irrevocably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe. Like many of us, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she, she wondered, if something at her very core could change so radically? THE FIXED STARS explores timely and timeless questions about desire, identity, and the limits and possibilities of family.