Join the inimitable and incandescent ISABEL ABBOTT as she reads from her new book, Salt + Honey, followed by a book signing.

In her own words:

“I make art installation in the forms of hieroglyphic maps and feathered and papered wings of desire. I study and serve as a presidential merit scholar at Chicago Theological Seminary, exploring intersections of embodiment and sexual ethics, interreligious engagement as a secular humanist, religious ritual and cartography of faith. I live in a city that houses my stories, and I am always on my way back to Mexico and my beloved. I write medical anthropology on the wandering womb, secular prayers and love letters. With an anti-oppression orientation, presence and devotion to the shadow and inexplicable light, I serve on the thresholds, bringing over fifteen years of professional experience as a birth and death doula, sex educator and artist, all of this entering into the creation of now. And I bake pies and hunt for lilacs and again and again return to the open road.

I love this world. Love for coffee consumption, and the late night sounds of my alley cat, the trust of solitude, the hum of neon, the call of the secular pilgrimage, the insistence of contradictions, and heat. Love for the human and holy hedonistic hearts, for solid ground and belonging to the body, rough housing with words and re-envisioning the old myths, giving voice to the unnamed. A hunger for the sacred and profane, the return to the salt water, the study of adaptation and insistence on movement and messy beautiful things.”

Please call to reserve at 920-563-9391.