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Recently published by NYT in their Tiny Love Stories series

Written by author, photographer, and psychotherapist Margaret Grundstein, Bargains: A Coming of Aging Memoir Told in Tales is a completed, 61,115-word manuscript structured as a collection of twelve deeply personal essays. The work explores the vibrant terrain of her seventies, navigating love, self-understanding, family, friendship, work, and sexuality against the poignant backdrop of moving closer to the end of life

Published in 2015 Naked in the Woods chronicles Grundstein’s shift from reluctant hippie to committed utopian—sacrificing phones, electricity, and running water to live on 160 acres of remote forest with nothing but a drafty cabin and each other. Grundstein, (whose husband left, seduced by “freer love”) faced tough choices. Could she make it as a single woman in man’s country? Did she still want to? How committed was she to her new life? Although she reveled in the shared transcendence of communal life deep in the natural world, disillusionment slowly eroded the dream. Brotherhood frayed when food became scarce. Rifts formed over land ownership. Dogma and reality clashed.
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