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Another beautiful memoir of someone bearing their truth. Thank you Bridgette for your bravery. Standing witness again to another woman, who was a girl and her parents not only failed to protect her but perperated some of the abuse and neglect. Her very special connection to the rivers was so beautifully written and I learned quite a bit about white water rafting along the way which was facinating. This book changed me. The ending was so beautiful and shows just how complicated human realatonships really are and how there is always possibility for reconsiliation.
A vivid and propulsive memoir about finding courage and meaning in a life outdoors, by a world-class whitewater rafting guide.
After Bridget Crocker's parents' volatile divorce, she moved with her mother from Southern California to Wyoming. Her life was idyllic, growing up in a trailer park on the banks of the Snake River with a stepfather she loved, a new baby brother, and the river as her companionāuntil her mother suddenly took up a radical new lifestyle, becoming someone Bridget barely recognized. The one constant in her lifeāthe place Bridget felt whole and fully herselfāwas the river. When she discoveredā¦
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa storiesāall reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argueā¦
THE DRY SEASON is smart, elegant, and utterly unique. In this book, Melissa Febos conducts the kind of fearless self-inventory that makes many would-be memoir writers blanch-- not only confronting how she has acted in the past but truly understanding it, taking steps to live differently on the other side. (Her list of commitments to herself at the end made me squirm with discomfort, because it created so much immediate dissonance in areas where I, too, might be living out of alignment.) THE DRY SEASON is both a compelling story and a proposed philosophy for living, and I don't think any reader will come away without a desire to inventory their own love and sex lives, to better understand their own behavior patterns, especially in the context of our culture. As a writer, I especially admire this book's structure, which reveals the right details at precisely the right moments andā¦
