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Title: Searching for a Mustard Seed: One Young Widow's Unconventional Story by Miriam Sagan ISBN: 0-9713160-3-1 Publisher: Quality Words in Print Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: direct and unflinching
Comment: This memoir deals with sudden widowhood in a very direct and gutsy way. The author's husband was a Buddhist monk who died suddenly leaving Miriam and her young daughter dazed and thrown into a social limbo and an unimagined life. It is also the story of Miriam's recovery from grief and an unforeseen second marriage to her long-lost very first boyfriend less than a year later after he paid a cross-country condolence call.
Sagan does not sugar coat her experiences - there are places in the book where her directness in facing death and the state of her own life in the aftermath may unsettle some readers. Those of us who have been in these difficult situations she describes are grateful for her honest reporting and insights.
The book manages to convey the rollercoaster quality of real life without dogma and a great fearless embrace of reality. This is a great hearted book that deserves a big audience. I recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: beautiful tale of death, widowhood, remarriage
Comment: Although the cover is a bit misleading - the story is about an American family struggling with illness and death - it's a wonderful tale. Sagan beautifully narrates her emotional journey through her husband's illness and sudden death at 36; her vast grief and loneliness; then rapid remarriage to her high school boyfriend. Her late husband was an American Zen priest, tightly connected into the California Zen movement with all its eccentric personalities - we get to meet some of them too. Incisively describes the vicious pain of widowhood, giving full detail of personal drama while ever the skillful journalist. I cried bitterly at her exhaustion and her sorrow, and exulted in her new passions and remarriage. Compelling piece.
Rating: 5
Summary: A good book for anybody working through the grieving process
Comment: Miriam's story is sad, funny, sexy, adventurous, and life affirming.
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Title: I'm Grieving As Fast As I Can: How Young Widows and Widowers Can Cope and Heal by Linda Sones Feinberg ISBN: 0882820958 Publisher: New Horizon Press Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Stalking the Divine: Contemplating Faith With the Poor Clares by Kristin Ohlson ISBN: 1401300251 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 06 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Brazilian Healer with the Kitchen Knife: And Other Stories of Mystics, Shamans, and Miracle Makers by Sandy Johnson ISBN: 1579546862 Publisher: Rodale Press Pub. Date: 04 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: My Father's Footprints: A Memoir by Colin McEnroe ISBN: 0446529338 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Fingerpainting on the Moon : Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom by Peter Levitt ISBN: 0609610481 Publisher: Harmony Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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