Message from a Blue Jay - Love, Loss, and One Writer's Journey Home (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Faye Rapoport Despres
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2014
First published:	May 2014
Authors:	Faye Rapoport Despres
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	186
ISBN-13:	978-0-9842035-2-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adults > Elderly Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-9842035-2-4
Barcode:	9780984203529

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