Turning Home: A Memoir [Hardcover]

Susanna Tamaro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2001

The bestselling author of "Follow Your Heart" now presents two essays: "Even in Darkness" and "Not a Color, but a Light". "Turning Home" is part religious reflection and part exploration of fear loneliness, and the great longing of the human heart to be happily home.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Italian novelist Susanna Tamaro discusses her spiritual journey in Turning Home: A Memoir, from Crossroad. While other spiritual autobiographies trip the light fantastic with humor and inspirational anecdotes, this weighty account is refreshingly, relentlessly dark. Chapters are short two pages maximum but heavy, reflecting on evil and the unwavering reality of death. ("Will we still be brother and sister when we're skeletons?" the author asked her older brother when they were children.) While not for the faint of heart, those who are intimately familiar with the "long dark night of the soul" will appreciate these brief confessions.

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About the Author

Susanna Tamaro is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, published in more than forty countries. They include the novel Follow Your Heart; a memoir, Turning Home; a collection of short stories; and four children's books. Born in Trieste, Tamaro lives on a farm in Umbria.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company (June 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824519027
• ISBN-13: 978-0824519025
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,718,271 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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