Meet the Author, Meira Cook author of The Full Catastrophe | Congregation Torat El - Monmouth County Conservative Synagogue

Meet the Author, Meira Cook author of The Full Catastrophe

Sunday, May 7, 2023, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Congregation Torat El
301 Monmouth Road
Oakhurst, NJ 07755

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The Full Catastrophe is the story of Charlie Minkoff and his grandfather and best friend, Oscar, a Holocaust survivor.  Since Oscar never had a Bar Mitzvah, Charlie  tries to arrange for a joint Bar  Mitzvah for himself and his zeide, not expecting to encounter obstacles along the way. This is a touching story of an unusual family, a boy with physical challenges, the impact of secrets, the value of friendship and a grandfather’s wisdom, and the importance of love on the journey to becoming a man. 

Pre-Paid $15 per person/$20 at the door – A light brunch will be served

Meira Cook is the award-winning author of several novels and five poetry collections. She won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction. Cook also served as Write in Residence at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture. 

Buy your copy of her book from Bookshop.org (to support independent bookstores) or amazon.com 

We are pleased to announce that we will be debuting hybrid programming so that we can present our programs both in person and on Zoom.

We hope that if you are local, you will come in person and enjoy not only the author and book ( Meira Cook’s The Full Catastrophe),  but a special brunch for our last event of the season. Please tell your distant family and friends who may have been joining us on Zoom for previous programs, that they can also enjoy this event by signing up for the Zoom link. The fee will be the same – $15. 

For our far-away attendees who enjoyed attending the many Zoom Meet The Author programs Congregation Torat El held from  2020 through 2022,  we hope you will also join us for our final event of our sixth season, The Full Catastrophe by Meira Cook. There will be a $15 charge to obtain the Zoom link which is the same as we are charging our in-person audience. The program begins at 11AM – see the flyer for more details.

We look forward to seeing you! Please make your reservation  below.

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