The Book of Wanderings: A Mother-Daughter Pilgrimage
Autor Kimberly Meyeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 mar 2015
When Kimberly Meyer gave birth to her first daughter, Ellie, during her senior year of college, the bohemian life of exploration she had once imagined for herself was lost in the responsibilities of single motherhood. For years, both mother and daughter were haunted by how Ellie came into being-Kimberly through a restless ache for the world beyond, Ellie through a fear of abandonment.
Longing to bond with Ellie, now a college student, and longing, too, to rediscover herself, Kimberly sets off with her daughter on a quest for meaning across the globe. Leaving behind the rhythms of ordinary life in Houston, Texas, they dedicate a summer to retracing the footsteps ofFelix Fabri,a medieval Dominican friar whose written account of his travels resonates with Kimberly. Their mother-daughter pilgrimage takes them to exotic destinations infused with mystery, spirituality, and rich history-from Venice to the Mediterranean through Greece and partitioned Cyprus, to Israel and across the Sinai Desert with Bedouin guides, to the Palestinian territories and to Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt.
In spare and gorgeous prose,The Book of Wanderingstells the story of Kimberly and Ellie's journey, and of the intimate, lasting bond they forge along the way. A meditation on stripping away the distractions, on simplicity, on how to live, this is a vibrant memoir with the power to both transport readers to far-off lands and to bring them in closer connection with themselves. It will appeal to anyone who has contemplated the road not taken, who has experienced the gnawing feeling that there is something more, who has faced the void-of offspring leaving, of mortality looming, of searching for someplace that feels, finally, like home.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316251211
ISBN-10: 0316251216
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 161 x 241 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316251216
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 161 x 241 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
Notă biografică
Kimberly
Meyer
holds
a
doctoral
degree
in
Literature
and
Creative
Writing
from
the
University
of
Houston,
where
she
was
the
recipient
of
several
fellowships
and
grants.
Her
essays
have
appeared
widely
in
magazines
and
journals
and
have
been
anthologized
in
theBest
American
Travel
Writing.
She
teaches
literature
courses
in
the
Great
Books
at
the
University
of
Houston,
and
lives
in
that
thriving,
multicultural
city
of
no
zoning
with
her
husband
and
daughters.
Recenzii
"The
Book
of
Wanderingsis
about
both
the
intrinsically
private
and
the
universally
enduring
need
for
pilgrimage:
to
the
sites
that
restore
and
reward,
to
the
experience
of
wondering
and
wandering
and
connecting,
whether
with
family
or
the
whole
human
race.
Meyer
brings
this
insatiable
urge
to
pursue
enlightenment
of
the
journey
home
to
the
reader.
Home
to
the
ordinary
suburban
American
in
the
very
chaotic
21stcentury.
There's
no
one
who
won't
recognize
some
aspect
of
herself
in
these
pages.
They
offer
insights
both
mystical
and
practical.
It
is
a
book
to
cherish."—Antonya
Nelson,
author
of
Bound
and
Funny
Once
"Meyer's poetic voice and sincerity make this quest not a gimmick but a richly felt expedition.... The book's life comes from Meyer's pondering the years of waiting and wondering if she would ever do what she had dreamed of so long ago and whether it would bring her all that she hoped. An uncommonly rich and spiritual book,The Book of Wanderingsspeaks not just to satisfying wanderlust but to finding home in this world or beyond."—Eloise Kinney,Booklist
"Expansive [and] finely observed."—Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe
"Intriguing and ambitious.... Meyer has a keen eye for detail and a graceful way with words. Her descriptions are brilliantly crafted - so ripe one is transported with her.... The arduousness and soul-baring nature of the long journey seems to have stripped her down to her essence, and she is able to confidently experience and tell the story in her own words, excellently, compellingly."—Sharon Peters, USA Today
"Meyer's memoir about her pilgrimage with her daughter Ellie will make you feel virtually transported to some of the world's most exotic and rich locations (Venice, Cyprus, Alexandria), but that's not the most rewarding part. Her story of forging and solidifying her bond with daughter Ellie is what will impact you the most deeply, leaving you with an intense need to talk to your mom."—Lynsey Eidell, Glamour
"Meyer ably contrasts the mundane frustrations of travel-language confusion, unfamiliar food, unreliable transportation-and the transcendent moments when you make that ineffable connection with those who came before you, 'swallowed up...in...the sweep of historical time.'"—Michelle Newby, Lone Star Literary Life
"A powerful memoir of family connections, what it means to undertake a shared pilgrimage, and the encounters and forces that change lives.... Perfect for mothers and daughters to read together."—Midwest Book Review
"A meditation of stripping away distractions and embracing simplicity [that] will take you on the road less traveled and show you that the world has so much to offer."—Working Mother
"Meyer's poetic voice and sincerity make this quest not a gimmick but a richly felt expedition.... The book's life comes from Meyer's pondering the years of waiting and wondering if she would ever do what she had dreamed of so long ago and whether it would bring her all that she hoped. An uncommonly rich and spiritual book,The Book of Wanderingsspeaks not just to satisfying wanderlust but to finding home in this world or beyond."—Eloise Kinney,Booklist
"Expansive [and] finely observed."—Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe
"Intriguing and ambitious.... Meyer has a keen eye for detail and a graceful way with words. Her descriptions are brilliantly crafted - so ripe one is transported with her.... The arduousness and soul-baring nature of the long journey seems to have stripped her down to her essence, and she is able to confidently experience and tell the story in her own words, excellently, compellingly."—Sharon Peters, USA Today
"Meyer's memoir about her pilgrimage with her daughter Ellie will make you feel virtually transported to some of the world's most exotic and rich locations (Venice, Cyprus, Alexandria), but that's not the most rewarding part. Her story of forging and solidifying her bond with daughter Ellie is what will impact you the most deeply, leaving you with an intense need to talk to your mom."—Lynsey Eidell, Glamour
"Meyer ably contrasts the mundane frustrations of travel-language confusion, unfamiliar food, unreliable transportation-and the transcendent moments when you make that ineffable connection with those who came before you, 'swallowed up...in...the sweep of historical time.'"—Michelle Newby, Lone Star Literary Life
"A powerful memoir of family connections, what it means to undertake a shared pilgrimage, and the encounters and forces that change lives.... Perfect for mothers and daughters to read together."—Midwest Book Review
"A meditation of stripping away distractions and embracing simplicity [that] will take you on the road less traveled and show you that the world has so much to offer."—Working Mother