Kate Wenner

Dancing With Einstein
Marea Hoffman grew up during the age of “duck and cover” drills, while her father, a Holocaust survivor, built nuclear bombs. Troubled by fear of nuclear war, Marea finds comfort in the company of her father’s colleague and friend, the grandfatherly Albert Einstein. Later, as a young woman, she confronts her childhood fears through the strange enterprise of seeing four different therapists at the same time. Weaving back and forth between 1970s New York and 1950s Princeton, this novel of ideas is intensely moving and ultimately an affirmation of hope.

Setting Fires
In this "intelligent, richly nuanced" (Publishers Weekly) debut novel, a Jewish documentary filmmaker faces down anti-Semitism while investigating the fire that destroyed her country home - and begins to uncover the disturbing truths hidden in her family's history while caring for her sick father, a difficult man burdened with secrets and shame.