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In this lyrical, hard-hitting memoir, one American woman's journey is set against the larger landscape of the political upheaval and global climate disruption of her time and place. In telling the story of a generation who forgot how important the health of our planet is to our personal and collective well-being, Jennifer Browdy calls on readers to remember our primary connection to the Earth and begin the process of transformation at the intersection of the personal, political and planetary.

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Jennifer Browdy has chosen to write what she calls a 'purposeful memoir....' Her choice can inspire us all to see how our lives have been hijacked or distracted from what we most deeply desire, and how we can reclaim our lives for the sake of life on Earth. - Joanna Macy, author of Coming Back to Life and Active Hope (2022 edition): How to Face the Mess We're in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power She documents the process of waking up to the world around us and she demonstrates how vibrant and rewarding an engaged life can be. - Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia and The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture This beautifully written and moving memoir of a woman's search to find her authentic self, buried beneath decades of social conditioning and academic prejudice, will resonate with those who share her longing to recover her early reverence for the natural world and to direct their gifts and experience to serving it. In a culture immersed in the fascination with technology, we have forgotten our origins and our profound relationship with the planet. This book offers hope, inspiration and support to all those who, aware of disaster staring us in the face, are searching for courage and insight into how to respond. A timely and most valuable contribution to the greatest challenge of our times. - Anne Baring, author of The Dream of the Cosmos: a Quest for the Soul

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Jennifer Browdy, Ph.D. is a professor of comparative literature and media arts at Bard College at Simon's Rock and the online global Bard Open Society University Network, focusing on personal narratives by the writer-activists she calls worldwrights-people who use writing to make the world better. She also teaches leadership and public speaking for social and environmental justice, and world literature by women. Her latest book, Purposeful Memoir as a Quest for a Thriving Future, was a 2022 Nautilus Gold Award winner and a 2022 Gold Award winner in the Independent Press Association Awards. Her writer's guide, The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir, won a 2017 Nautilus Silver Award. Jennifer has presented at numerous academic conferences, including recent engagements at Mt. Holyoke College, the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, the Bioneers conference, the Transformative Language Arts Network conference and the Association for the Study of Literature & the Environment (ASLE) conference.

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