Message from a Blue Jay - Love, Loss, and One Writer's Journey Home
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0984203524 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 186 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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The choices she made from that moment on lead her to re-trace her steps both in the States and abroad as she attempted to understand her life. But instead of going back, she found herself moving forward to new love, shocking loss, and finally, in a way that she never expected, to a place that she can almost call home.From an astonishing blue jay to a lone humpback whale, from the back roads of her home town to the streets of Jerusalem and the Tower of London, debut author Faye Rapoport DesPres examines a modern life marked by a passion for the natural world, unexpected love, and shocking loss, and her search for a place she can finally call home in this beautifully-crafted memoir-in-essays
. Faye Rapoport DesPres has spent much of her writing career as a journalist and business/non-profit writer. In 2010 she earned her MFA from Pine Manor College, where she focused on creative nonfiction. Her personal essays, fiction, and poetry have been published in Ascent, Superstition Review, and Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, as well as other journals, magazin
She captures that essence in her essays and it unfurls like watching the blaze of a sunrise over the mountains slowly usurp what was considered mundane and pedestrian before we witnessed it. Her honest, affecting memoir about her forties is written with a lyrical touch and covers topics that will resonate with many readers: a new husband; a falling-down house; a dying mother-in-law, who's not going gently into her good night; travels to other countries; and magical encounters with the outdoors." --Brandeis Magazine. Exceptional and unparalleled." -- Meg Tuite, Author of Bound by Blue and Domestic Apparition and fiction ed
"Each chapter is like a little meditation" according to UWS Gal. Lovely series of vignettes from the writer's life. Each chapter is like a little meditation.. green and yellow tomatoes said Four Stars. ok. Walden Redux mathias b. freese Jean-Paul Des Pres who is the husband of Faye Rapoport is the son of Terence Des Pres, deceased, who wrote a brilliant account of survival in the death camps, The Survivor . It is worth mentioning in that Faye’s father, Ben, was a survivor of the Holocaust. While I have several ideas about her charming and sensitive book, I cannot but feel the shadow that having a father as a survivor had a powerful impact upon Faye’s sense of self. Throughout her book o