Dawn Downey

Broschiertes Buch

Searching for My Heart

Essays about Love

Beschreibung

How do you find the state of mind called home? Dawn Downey has been a misfit since childhood, but she discovers that self-acceptance leads to a sense of belonging, and everywhere you find yourself is home.

Autor

Dawn Downey writes to bring people together in a compassionate understanding of one another. By writing her personal challenges, she sees the workings of her mind. By listening to her readers, she learns that most minds work in a similar fashion. She is driven to share her stories by the hope that readers will lovingly accept those similarities-in themselves, in one another, and in their adversaries. She believes a good story well told lies at the heart of such recognition. For instruction in the craft of story telling, she turns to her favorite authors. To remember how to express emotional pain, she reads the novels of Toni Morrison. Annie Dillard teaches her to describe metaphysical experience, without succumbing to spiritual jargon. She reads George R. R. Martin to master the art of run-for-your-life terror. Downey is the author of From Dawn to Daylight: Essays, a collection of personal vignettes. She is also the author of a memoir, Stumbling Toward the Buddha: Stories about Tripping over My Principles on the Road to Transformation. She composes her essays in traditional narrative style, as well as the nonlinear lyrical form. She experiments with the format of flash nonfiction-each story less than a page long. Although her subject matter is the familiar territory of daily life, she draws inspiration from the transcendent. Publications featuring her work include Punctuate; Persimmon Tree; Kansas City Voices; River, Blood, and Corn; Skirt! Magazine; and The Christian Science Monitor. The solitary process of writing makes her crave face-to-face interaction, which she satisfies through lunches with readers and friends and weekend strolls with a hiking club. She and her husband live in Kansas City, where she writes books while her house grows dust bunnies. Learn more at dawndowney.com.

Produktdetails

• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 145g
• ISBN-13: 9780996324052
• ISBN-10: 0996324054
• Artikelnr.: 68359764