Mary Lane Potter is an academic turned fiction, poetry, and non-fiction writer. She writes, reads, teaches workshops on the literary craft.
This book is a wonder. Potter's dynamic interpretations of ever-unfolding relationships between ritual and liminality are boundary-blasting, widely, deeply learned, and blessedly accessible. She combines personal narrative with scholarly sources in ways that are profound, probing, delightful, and generously invitational. The Coda, ""How to Wear a Prayer Shawl,"" the author's final gift to her readers, is, alone, worth the price of the book. Mary Farrell Bednarowski is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities