Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart {Unabridged Audio} [Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Deborah Santana (Author), Carrington Macduffie (Amer.) (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2005

A beautiful haunting memoir by Deborah Santana, the wife of Carlos Santana set against the backdrop of the 60s and 70s.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette: 7 pages
• Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. (2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1415915873
• ISBN-13: 978-1415915875
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,009,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Powerful Memoir, December 6, 2004

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S. R. Gelman (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart (Hardcover)

This is an intimate, revealing, highly readable memoir of an exciting, unusual, and deeply examined life. Deborah Santana's beautifully written book allows the reader to accompany her on a heady trip through San Francisco in the 1960's and 70's, as she takes us on a backstage tour complete with sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll.

But this is much more than a hip jaunt though the wild worlds of music and celebrity. It is also a journey through times of social, political and personal upheaval and awakening. It is a story of coming of age that is filled with romance and motherhood, mysticism and business, loneliness and family, fear and strength. Her honest, heartfelt, and often funny account can also be a source of inspiration and solace due to her remarkable honesty and her ability to overcome prejudice, insecurity, abuse, heartbreak, and loss.

Ultimately it is the triumphant tale of a courageous woman who has experienced pain and privilege, hardship and success and faced them all with real sincerity, humility, spirituality, and, most of all, love.

Deborah Santana is a powerful, eloquent writer who uses words like prisms through which we can learn to see the world, and ourselves, in new ways.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Everyone struggles!, June 11, 2005

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart (Hardcover)

This isn't your ordinary "wife-of-celebrity memoir." Deborah King Santana is the daughter of an Irish-English professional woman and an African-American jazz musician, brought up in a sheltered, secure life, with pride in herself and her heritage. Her adult life will be neither sheltered nor secure-and never ordinary.

Deborah meets Sly Stone as a teenager. She is totally unprepared for his world, but is so charmed and seduced by him, that she enters it, complete with music, drugs, abuse, and shame. When she finally finds the strength to leave him, she soon meets Carlos Santana, already a Grammy-winning rock superstar, and though she tells herself to wait, immediately begins a relationship with him.

Over three decades as Santana's wife, she'll experience the world of a touring musician, a meditative life with an oppressive guru, unfaithfulness by Santana, three children, near financial ruin, and the exhilaration of starting a successful business. Most important, she discovers the emergence of a sense of herself, and what it means to be true to that self.

Santana unfolds her story without judgment of the person who made the decisions she did. Santana the writer allows Deborah's understanding of each part of her life to emerge slowly and naturally. As much as is possible when looking back over time, we get a sense of what she felt and experienced as it happened, and then what she did with it.

Her writing is sensual - the feel of skin, the sense of light, music's blood-level rhythm describe her life intimately. It is also sensible - she looks back on her life not as isolated incidents adding up to something, but as stages of becoming. She describes herself with honesty, and fills the page with adjectives and adverbs, leaving nothing to chance in how we will understand her world. It's not a celebrity memoir at all, but a deep look at what this woman, who happens to be married to a famous man, is made of.

This is an excellent read if you want to learn what is like to be part of a famous musician's life-with all its perks and pitfalls.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seeing Stars and the People That Love Them, August 8, 2005

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Xina Sy "Z" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart (Hardcover)

What a wonderfully, powerful love story filled with spiritual transformation. The Sanatana's 35 year relationship is an unusual chronicle or friendship, love,family, and loyalty. I could not put it down; from the first page I was hooked! It filled my Sunday afternoon with such unexpected joy and elation... it has made me look at mo own relationship with an artist very, very differently. Now I can see with eyes of unconditional love and non-judgement and compassion and most of all... understanding.