AVAILABLE AS IS: A MIDLIFE WIDOW'S SEARCH FOR LOVE

“A sudden widow at fifty, Debbie Weiss captures the absurdity of modern dating as a grown up. With unexpected humor and much-welcome hope, Available As Is is a deeply moving story of trying to build a new life after loss.” —Allison Gilbert, author of Listen, World! and Passed and Present

Debbie Weiss is a former attorney who earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from Saint Mary’s College of California in 2020. A native of the Bay Area, she turned to writing after George, her husband and partner of more than three decades, died of cancer in April 2013, and she found herself single and living alone for the first time in her life. Weiss’s essays have been published in The New York Times's “Modern Love” column, HuffPost, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Elle Décor, and Reader’s Digest, among other publications. Her award-winning blog, TheHungoverWidow.com, dispenses empathy and advice on grief and dating after loss. She lives in Benicia, CA. 

Author Debbie Weiss will be in conversation with Rabbi Dan Goldblatt on her new book Available As Is: A Midlife Widow’s Search for Love.  Their talk will be followed by a Q&A session.

Admission is free. 

Co-sponsored with Rakestraw Books who wil be providing the books for sale.