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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Book Description
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.
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.
