Book description
Freeing the Turkeys, is the much anticipated collection of essays by Laura Lentz. Each essay has a poetic, musical quality, speaking directly to the soul, awakening a sleeping part of ourselves as we go through life facing physical and emotional challenges, losing people we love and celebrating with those who…
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1 author picked Freeing the Turkeys as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book because Laura Lentz writes with a rare combination of emotional honesty and generosity.
Her essays are deeply personal without ever becoming self-centered, and she has an extraordinary ability to hold chaos, grief, illness, love, and humor in the same breath. What I admire most is how she tells the truth about real people—flawed, complicated, difficult—without turning anyone into a villain, including herself. Her writing feels musical and awake, and rooted in the body.
Having worked with Laura as my writing coach for years, her work reminds me not to shy away from brutal honesty and to…
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