Description
By Lesa Caldarella-Wong
Diving into these words was an exercise in bearing witness to a part of the human
experience I had only read about in the newspapers. I remember reading about Rwanda. I
prayed. But I was removed. Reading Real Bread was a journey into the darkest parts of
humanity; haunting and harrowing, yes, but bearable and illuminating because Lesa
Caldarella bore witness with love, with the eyes and heart of God as embodied within as a
“woman from the West.”
About the author
Lesa Caldarella-Wong, is the author of two volumes of poetry, including Desert of this Beauty.
She grew up in an Italian-Irish-Catholic family with five sisters and worked for humanitarian
organizations for more than 30 years. She lives in Northern California with her husband
and they share a culturally-diverse-blended-family. Lesa enjoys travel, cooking for friends
and family, the wine country, hummingbirds, and spending time with her four grand-
children.
