When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice

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A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year

"Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder."--Ann Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds

"I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." This is what Terry Tempest Williams's mother, the matriarch of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah, told her a week before she died. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as it was to discover that the three shelves of journals were all blank. In fifty-four short chapters, Williams recounts memories of her mother, ponders her own faith, and contemplates the notion of absence and presence art and in our world.

When Women Were Birds is a carefully crafted kaleidoscope that keeps turning around the question: What does it mean to have a voice?

Author: Terry Tempest Williams
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 02/26/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 7.01h x 4.72w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9781250024114
ISBN10: 1250024110
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures

About the Author
Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of many books, including Leap, An Unspoken Hunger, Refuge, and Finding Beauty in a Broken World. She divides her time between Castle Valley, Utah, and Moose, Wyoming.