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Ripenings Author|Nawal Nader-French and will tell others likePart American history, part poetic memoir, part multifaceted and lyrical study of tender human life, Jacqueline Kudler's Ripenings is a trajectory, a richly detailed arco iris of ancestors, intimate family, friends, lifelong loves, inevitable loss. "Revelation begins in attention," the author writes, and whether that attention manifests here in paeans to New York, to life in Northern California's landscape, or to the people who have accompanied her