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Upcoming Live-Streamed Author Interview: Sara Elise

Sara Elise, Sally Haldorson

March 30, 2023

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Register now for this upcoming live-streamed conversation with multi-hyphenate creative Sara Elise.

SaraElise-thumbnail.jpgMAY 4, 6PM CST | Sara Elise, author of A Recipe for More: Ingredients for a Life of Abundance and Ease
in conversation with Porchlight's Managing Director Sally Haldorson

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About the Book

"Each new day is a singular moment, a singular opportunity. No day is like the last and no day is like what’s to come. We have arrived, and we are simultaneously arriving.”  

In this expansive debut, A Recipe for More: Choosing a Life of Pleasure and Abundance, creative, host, and "pleasure doula" Sara Elise offers a profound and challenging inquiry into the forces that keep us in a state of survival and limitation and asks us to consider a new way to live. Sara Elise leaves us with what it means to be present to what’s unfolding around us and open to the change that is possible in that empty space.

A Recipe for More is a quest to examine the ingredients of our lives, those essential components that make up our days. Have we chosen rest, breath, movement, agency, visibility, play, and pleasure? Or are we trapped in the numbing and violent pattern of self-inflicted suffering? Do we celebrate the unique and precious wiring of our brains? Are our relationships a garden of ever-growing and evolving roots? Do we nourish our bodies with what it requires to sense and receive? Are we liberated, awakened, and alive? In the tradition of Adrienne Maree Brown and Sonya Renee Taylor, A Recipe for More is a radical argument for dismantling the systems that oppress us. But it begins with the individual, and the simple recipe of our every day. 

Groundbreaking, persuasive, inclusive, and warm, A Recipe for More brings the ingredients of an abundant life to all readers so that we might honor ourselves, deepen our communities, and finally be present in each miraculous and life-giving singular moment.

With contributions by Fariha Róisín, Tourmaline, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Ryann Holmes (bklyn boihood), Naima Green, J Wortham, and more.

Purchase a copy of A Recipe for More from our event partner Boswell Books at 10% off until may 4th

About the Authors

Sara Elise is a Black & Indigenous, queer, autistic femme creative splitting her time between Brooklyn and Upstate, NY.

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Sally’s mission as Porchlight’s Managing Director is to make Porchlight a great place to work for employees, and a consistently high-performing service organization for everyone in or orbiting the publishing industry. Over her 25 years with the company, she has developed a penchant for business strategy, organizational management, and the history and evolution of business, both as a socio-economic force and a literary genre. She has a Masters in English and Creative Writing and helped craft three editions of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.

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