Otherwise, it's all polite smiles and light chit-chat. That's not Janai Lowenstein's style. She's not likely to be sedate. Passion and energy drive all Lowenstein's projects. She uses a series of unusual props to engage audiences.
Viewers find it hard to resist switching over from passive watching to joining the action.
Staying true to form, Lowenstein plans to liven the book-signing by bringing several items described in her book. Lowenstein can make the tureen-sized bowl resonate with an otherworldly hum that calls to mind the American Indian spirits brought to life in her first novel. If you get youth involved in using imagination while they are learning, they absorb the material much more easily because they feel it. It's not like memorizing a list of facts. Lowenstein knows teen-agers.