A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt

I’m not trying to accomplish anything, particularly, in writing about religion and culture other an exploration of some of the questions about identity that interest me. In How to Build a House, Harper comes from a blended family, like so many of us do, and this informs the way she thinks about and is open to different people and experiences. Her Judaism is a complete surprise and is at odds with the Atheist she believes herself to be. Why is that important to you and what are you trying to accomplish?Ī Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life isn’t so much about the intermingling of Jewish and Christian cultures as it is about a girl who thought she knew something about herself only to learn that she didn’t. One is the intermingling Jewish and Christian religions and cultures. In A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life and How to Build a House, there are similar themes. Other books include, How to Build a House and Harmless.

After her stint with Peter Jennings, she wrote and published her first novel, A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life. Among them, waiting on tables, working with adolescents in the foster care system, checking facts for a movie magazine, working as a reader for a publisher, and after graduating from law school, working for Frontline on PBS and then assisting Peter Jennings on a documentary about the Los Angeles Police Department. Before becoming a writer, she held many different jobs. Dana Reinhardt lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.

A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life by Dana Reinhardt