Ms Martineau, like many deep thinkers who pick up a pen has been on a lifelong quest for truth. Not the let's-all-agree-on-a-belief kind; the kind that can be verified, weighed, measured. The hard kernel of truth that remains after one strips away the shells of delusions, myths, imaginary friends and worlds, lies.
She brings a unique perspective: half Haitian, half anglo - in childhood immersed in the spirit world which pervaded her birth culture, counterposed by the harsh, dehumanizing preachings of evangelical missionaries. She struggles free from this restraining fabric of nonsense, dips a toe in wicca, `spirituality' et al and eventually accepts science as the best method man has yet devised for seeking truth.
Our corporeality is real. Our bodies interact intimately with our environment. We are creatures of and from the earth and ignore that at our peril.
Her writing is engaging: in turn straightforward, literary, wryly sardonic, angrily dismissive, poetic, funny, unbearably poignant, always honest.
Frank Zappa wrote "...all your children are poor unfortunate victims of lies you believe..." This book should be distributed to all those victims toiling away in cube farms across the US and beyond. It might strike a chord. There's a better way to live a life. And this book is a good compass.
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