The end-of-year season that brings with it so many celebrations and togetherness across cultures, geographies, and faiths feels like the perfect time to share this conversation with author Pamela Ehrenberg!

A large part of our chat today centers around the joy of collaboration, finding and building strong relationships, acting in service, and coming together to build something more than the sum of individual parts could alone.

We talked today mostly about two of Pamela's books, in addition to her journey as a whole. Detour Ahead is her middle grade collaboration with author Tracy Lopez, centering on the intersection of two adolescents who met by happenstance, and the ways that meeting changed the courses of their lives. Pamela's 2017 debut is our other book subject this week: Queen of the Hannukah Dosas is a delightful book blending an intercultural family dynamic with a troublesome affinity for climbing.

Pamela's own journey through service-oriented work and into the publishing industry (read more about PJ Library here!) was fascinating and we're really happy to share.

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DETOUR AHEAD co-author Tracy Lopez is located here.

QUEEN OF THE HANNUKAH DOSAS illustrator Anjan Sarkar is here.

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Our ChewyReviewy picks for the week:

SOUL FOOD SUNDAY, by Winsome Bingham

I CAN EXPLAIN by Shinsuke Yoshitake