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Food for the Soul: Selections From the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen Writers’ Workshop

Edited by Elizabeth Maxwell and Susan Shapiro

Seabury, 242 pages, $18 paper

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These essays, poems, stories and snippets from 25 participants in a soup-kitchen writing project will make you cry and laugh. Raw and honest, each one is a response to a thematic prompt such as “Where I’m From,” or “My Best Mistake.” This little volume bursts with nourishment as the holiday season approaches.