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laurenexploresbooks's review
5.0
This work was beautiful, gut wrenching, and powerful. CW: loss of a child, child grooming. Some griefs are beyond comprehension. Mirabai Starr speaks of her life, her experiences with the divine, and her love for her children, but she also speaks of doubt, grief, and continuing on when there seems like no hope.
pja_gsh's review
3.0
Don't get me wrong, this book opened up a whole new world to me. What let me down was the misleading blurb. I picked it up cause it's a story about a mother grieving her teenage daughter. I appeared to me that this grief was the starting point of her transformation. But the daughter appears like halfway through the story. The rest of it is about her life, the many losses she has coped with, her spiritual journey, her turbulent yet oddly comforting childhood... All sorts of things i did not expect when I read the blurb. That said, these facets of her life inform the story and inform her transformation. I just felt they also overpowered the story. I did like the book a lot!
wkheckler's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
This autobiography traces the author's unconventional upbringing and spiritual journey through trauma, hope, and an ongoing relationship with the holy.
laurakisthardt's review
2.0
I purchased this book after attending a seminar led by Mirabai. I really enjoy the interfaith aspect of her spirituality and those were some of my favorite parts of the memoir. She has suffered a lot of personal loss. I liked reading about her own hippie-esque upbringing and the parallels with her own daughters.
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