Divine Aphasia - Nelson, Nancy Owen
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Divine Aphasia's poignant story is tragic and often dark, yet hope permeates the struggles of the author, Nancy Owen Nelson. The narrative traces Nelson's journey through multiple relationships in her difficult search for her identity blurred by the experience of the constant moves with her father from one Army base to another. This loving father struggles with his own demons. Nelson marries a fourth time to a colleague after he suffered a debilitating stroke resulting in aphasia. Only following a painful divorce and her then ex-husband's suicide does she question what has motivated her to…mehr

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Divine Aphasia's poignant story is tragic and often dark, yet hope permeates the struggles of the author, Nancy Owen Nelson. The narrative traces Nelson's journey through multiple relationships in her difficult search for her identity blurred by the experience of the constant moves with her father from one Army base to another. This loving father struggles with his own demons. Nelson marries a fourth time to a colleague after he suffered a debilitating stroke resulting in aphasia. Only following a painful divorce and her then ex-husband's suicide does she question what has motivated her to choose this challenged man. She finally comes to understand how her father's depression and alcoholism, and the pattern of movement and constant change, have shaped her life.
Autorenporträt
RAISED IN HARTSELLE, ALABAMA, Nancy Owen Nelson has published articles in several academic journals and anthologies and has co-edited and edited academic books. Her poetry is published in What Wildness is This? (University of Texas Press, March 2007), South Dakota Review and Graffiti Rag, and her creative nonfiction pieces in Mom's Writing Literary Journal (Fall, 2008), Lalitamba Journal, and Roll (Telling Our Stories Press, 2013). Her memoir, Searching for Nannie B: Connecting Three Generations of Southern Women, was published by Ardent Writer Press in 2015, and her poetry books, My Heart Wears No Colors (FutureCycle Press), 2018, and Portals: A Memoir in Verse (Kelsay Books) in 2019.