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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Katherine E. StandeferPublisher: Little, Brown & Company Imprint: Little, Brown & Company Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.60cm Weight: 0.260kg ISBN: 9780316450348ISBN 10: 0316450340 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 02 June 2022 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsLightning Flowers is a quest for an answer to the most basic human question: what is a life worth? For a young American woman, kept alive by a hunk of metal in her chest, the answer is to be found in the African mines that produce titanium, cobalt, nickel... the precious metals used to make our essential microelectronics, including heart defibrillators. No trial in this quest can be avoided: heartbreak and debt, culture shock and corporate empire, medical indifference and poverty, trauma and mortality. There is an alchemy of tender magic and brute force in Standefer's writing; Lightning Flowers transports us into the heart of Africa--and the heart of a woman forced to question our global, racialized economy even as she identifies the raw materials that give her life. --Ann Neumann, author of The Good Death Lightning Flowers is both a memoir and a mystery, a riveting debut book by Katherine Standefer. She faces her own heart and the technological device that keeps it beating with the sharp eye of a journalist and the dramatic pacing of a novelist. Following the supply chain from her body to conflict minerals in the Congo, we see how the world is interconnected and interrelated. Standefer is a lyrical writer who has crafted an embodied text, understanding that our survival balances on the cliff edge of our complicity and our compassion. --Terry Tempest Williams, author of Erosion -- Essays of Undoing An affecting, crystalline memoir. --O, the Oprah Magazine In Lightning Flowers, Katherine E. Standefer offers a full accounting of the cost of a single life, and it is nothing short of astonishing. She travels, literally, to both the brink of death and the edge of the world to discover exactly what it means to live. Her courage is palpable, on the page and in life. This book is utterly spectacular. --Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises and What We've Lost is Nothing In her stunning debut, Katherine E. Standefer reveals how a single piece of supposedly lifesaving machinery has forever implicated her in ruinous global supply chains, how entire economies of extraction have come to reside deep within her body. With great clarity and resilience, Lightning Flowers invites us to become intimate with the moral and environmental calculus of our own lives. --Francisco Cantu, author of The Line Becomes a River This book will make you feel less alone. Pick it up and you will hear a human voice. --New York Times ""Lightning Flowers is both a memoir and a mystery, a riveting debut book by Katherine Standefer. She faces her own heart and the technological device that keeps it beating with the sharp eye of a journalist and the dramatic pacing of a novelist. Following the supply chain from her body to conflict minerals in the Congo, we see how the world is interconnected and interrelated. Standefer is a lyrical writer who has crafted an embodied text, understanding that our survival balances on the cliff edge of our complicity and our compassion.""--Terry Tempest Williams, author of Erosion: Essays of Undoing ""A sharp examination of the ways that a heart condition affected the author's life as well as those of strangers halfway across the world... Packed with emotion and a rare, honest assessment of the value of one's own life, this debut book is a standout. An intensely personal and brave accounting of a medical battle and the countless hidden costs of health care."" --Kirkus Reviews ""Lightning Flowers is a quest for an answer to the most basic human question: what is a life worth? For a young American woman, kept alive by a hunk of metal in her chest, the answer is to be found in the African mines that produce titanium, cobalt, nickel... the precious metals used to make our essential microelectronics, including heart defibrillators. No trial in this quest can be avoided: heartbreak and debt, culture shock and corporate empire, medical indifference and poverty, trauma and mortality. There is an alchemy of tender magic and brute force in Standefer's writing; Lightning Flowers transports us into the heart of Africa--and the heart of a woman forced to question our global, racialized economy even as she identifies the raw materials that give her life.""--Ann Neumann, author of The Good Death ""An affecting, crystalline memoir.""--O, the Oprah Magazine ""In Lightning Flowers, Katherine E. Standefer offers a full accounting of the cost of a single life, and it is nothing short of astonishing. She travels, literally, to both the brink of death and the edge of the world to discover exactly what it means to live. Her courage is palpable, on the page and in life. This book is utterly spectacular.""--Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises and What We've Lost is Nothing ""In her stunning debut, Katherine E. Standefer reveals how a single piece of supposedly lifesaving machinery has forever implicated her in ruinous global supply chains, how entire economies of extraction have come to reside deep within her body. With great clarity and resilience, Lightning Flowers invites us to become intimate with the moral and environmental calculus of our own lives.""--Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes a River ""This book will make you feel less alone. Pick it up and you will hear a human voice.""--New York Times """Lightning Flowers is both a memoir and a mystery, a riveting debut book by Katherine Standefer. She faces her own heart and the technological device that keeps it beating with the sharp eye of a journalist and the dramatic pacing of a novelist. Following the supply chain from her body to conflict minerals in the Congo, we see how the world is interconnected and interrelated. Standefer is a lyrical writer who has crafted an embodied text, understanding that our survival balances on the cliff edge of our complicity and our compassion.""--Terry Tempest Williams, author of Erosion: Essays of Undoing ""A sharp examination of the ways that a heart condition affected the author's life as well as those of strangers halfway across the world... Packed with emotion and a rare, honest assessment of the value of one's own life, this debut book is a standout. An intensely personal and brave accounting of a medical battle and the countless hidden costs of health care."" --Kirkus Reviews ""Lightning Flowers is a quest for an answer to the most basic human question: what is a life worth? For a young American woman, kept alive by a hunk of metal in her chest, the answer is to be found in the African mines that produce titanium, cobalt, nickel... the precious metals used to make our essential microelectronics, including heart defibrillators. No trial in this quest can be avoided: heartbreak and debt, culture shock and corporate empire, medical indifference and poverty, trauma and mortality. There is an alchemy of tender magic and brute force in Standefer's writing; Lightning Flowers transports us into the heart of Africa--and the heart of a woman forced to question our global, racialized economy even as she identifies the raw materials that give her life.""--Ann Neumann, author of The Good Death ""An affecting, crystalline memoir.""--O, the Oprah Magazine ""In Lightning Flowers, Katherine E. Standefer offers a full accounting of the cost of a single life, and it is nothing short of astonishing. She travels, literally, to both the brink of death and the edge of the world to discover exactly what it means to live. Her courage is palpable, on the page and in life. This book is utterly spectacular.""--Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises and What We've Lost is Nothing ""In her stunning debut, Katherine E. Standefer reveals how a single piece of supposedly lifesaving machinery has forever implicated her in ruinous global supply chains, how entire economies of extraction have come to reside deep within her body. With great clarity and resilience, Lightning Flowers invites us to become intimate with the moral and environmental calculus of our own lives.""--Francisco Cant�, author of The Line Becomes a River ""This book will make you feel less alone. Pick it up and you will hear a human voice.""--New York Times" Author InformationKatherine E. Standefer's debut book Lightning Flowers was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Her writing appeared in Best American Essays 2016. In 2018, Standefer was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good. She earned her MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Arizona and teaches for Ashland University's Low-Residency MFA. She writes from a juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico, where she lives with her chickens. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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