Author : Faye Rapoport DesPres
Publisher : Faye Rapoport Despres
ISBN 13 : 9780984203529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Book Synopsis Message from a Blue Jay by : Faye Rapoport DesPres
Download or read book Message from a Blue Jay written by Faye Rapoport DesPres and published by Faye Rapoport Despres. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an astonishing blue jay to a lone humpback whale, from the back roads of her hometown 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. Three weeks before DesPres's fortieth birthday, nothing about her life fit the usual mold. She is single, living in a rented house in Boulder, Colorado, fitting dance classes and nature hikes between workdays at a software start-up that soon won't exist. While contemplating a sky still hazy from summer wildfires, she decides to take stock of her nomadic life and find the real reasons she never "settled down." The choices she makes from that moment on lead her to retrace her steps-in the States and abroad-as she attempts to understand her life. But instead of going back, she finds herself moving forward to new love, horrible loss, and finally, in a way that she never expected, to a place she can almost call home. Readers who love the memoirs and personal essays of rising contemporary writers such as Cheryl Strayed, Joy Castro, and Kim Dana Kupperman will appreciate Faye's observational eye, her passion for the natural world and the creatures that inhabit it, and her search for the surprising truths behind the events of our daily lives.