{"product_id":"flirting-with-extinction-collected-essays-stories-9783988321244","title":"Flirting With Extinction: Collected Essays \u0026 Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Pushes mortality to the very edge with broncos, sharks, and drugs, coming together to create a disturbing picture of American life.\" JoeAnn Hart, author of \u003cem\u003eArroyo Circle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a girl growing up with nine brothers and a much younger sister, Joanna Kadish was determined to prove that females were just as tough-if not tougher. From training wild horses and swimming icy rivers to trekking through remote wilderness, she pushed herself to the limit, even risking her life to tame an untamable rodeo bronc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter converting to Judaism and adopting her new husband's name, she moved to Washington state and together with her husband, Joanna helped create a utopia on their island home, far from family feuds. As a family they explored the Pacific Northwest wilderness and played sports. Their children thrived in an environment filled with art, music, and freedom. But the idyllic life they built took a dark turn when their teenage son Micah, along with his friends, defaced a yeshiva, with one drawing swastikas and the chilling message, \"this way to the gas chambers\"-a reckless joke that would lead to devastating consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the law came down hard on Micah, the family faced the unbearable loss of their other son, Seth. In \u003cem\u003eFlirting with Extinction\u003c\/em\u003e, Joanna Kadish explores the deep-rooted trauma inherited from Holocaust survivors. Micah's great-grandfather was killed in a German labor camp, and Micah's grandfather, with his mother and sister, fled Germany shortly before Kristallnacht. Decades later, that trauma continues to haunt the family, proving that the wounds of history are not so easily healed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are Joanna's stories of survival, loss, and the enduring impact of generational trauma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKadish, Joanna:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Joanna Kadish edited newsletters on finance for Grant Thornton and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants before her children were born. After that, she became a freelance contributor for the New Jersey Regional Section of The New York Times, and several regional newspapers and magazines, including The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Asbury Park Press, Seattle Magazine, and Seattle Business Magazine, among other publications. She published stories and essays in numerous literary magazines and won first place in Adelaide Literary Award 2019 Contest, and she was a finalist in the creative nonfiction category in the Spring 2019 Pinch Literary Awards, as well as a finalist in the Black Coffee \u0026amp; Vinyl Presents: Ice Cultures project, summer of 2018, and Cutthroat 2023 and 2016 Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Contest. She has written a novel, Charting a Marriage. She has an MFA in creative writing from Bennington Writing Seminars in Vermont and an undergraduate degree in literature and philosophy from UC Berkeley.","brand":"Vine Leaves Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51572168261906,"sku":"9783988321244","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6ff9ce7d-5fc7-48c8-a1bb-8006b3322e61.jpg?v=1755855610","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flirting-with-extinction-collected-essays-stories-9783988321244","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}