Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir

A powerful memoir from Natalie Golderg--the woman who changed the way writing is taught in this country--sharing her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of writing and Zen.

When longtime Zen practitioner and world-renowned writing teacher Natalie Goldberg learns that she has a life-threatening illness, she is plunged into the challenging realm of hospitals, physicians, unfamiliar medical treatments, and the intense reality of her own impermanence. In navigating this foreign landscape, Natalie illuminates a pathway through illness that is grounded in the fierce commitment to embrace the suffering directly. In the middle of this, her partner discovers that she too has cancer. The cancer twins, as Natalie calls them, must together and apart grapple with survival, love, and the rawness of human connection. This book is a moving meditation on living a genuine life in full bloom.

Author: Natalie Goldberg
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 06/05/2018
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781611805673
ISBN10: 1611805678
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Health & Fitness | Diseases | Cancer
- Family & Relationships | Life Stages | Mid-Life

About the Author
NATALIE GOLDBERG is the author of fourteen books, including Writing Down the Bones, which has changed the way writing is taught in this country. She teaches retreats nationally and internationally. She lives in New Mexico.