This Halloween afternoon, join us in trying to make a super scary topic a little less so as we welcome author Fredricka Maister to BBM. Her recent memoir Three Times a Mourner: Personal Essays on Grief and Healing is a powerful journey exploring not only the elasticity of experience within grief, but the ways in which grief also heals you.

Fredricka will be reading from the memoir and signing copies following the end of the Q&A portion!

Fredricka R. Maister is a Philadelphia-based writer whose personal essays and articles explore the full spectrum of human experience—from the mundane to the offbeat, the shocking to the life-changing. Her work has appeared in a range of publications, including The Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, New York Jewish Week/The Times of Israel, Jewish Exponent, HuffPost, Broad Street Review, The Writer, Brevity Blog, and The Manifest Station, among others. Three Times a Mourner: Personal Essays on Grief and Healing is her first book.