The Sky Begins at Your Feet - A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body

I cannot figure out who I am as a body these days, writes Caryn Mirriam- Goldberg in this powerful, tender and humorous memoir about resiliency and love in the face of cancer. Mirriam- Goldberg braves breast cancer, the breast cancer genetic mutation and the loss of a parent by connecting with an eclectic Midwest community, the land and sky, and a body undergoing vast renovation. Along the way, she swims with stingrays in the Gulf of Mexico, searches for cream puff s for a Pennsylvania funeral, leads a group fi ghting to protect ecologically-essential land in Kansas, and helps students fi nd their own voice in Vermont. In searching for a new definition of the erotic through our awareness of nature, this memoir illuminates how our bodies are our most local address on the earth. Starred Review Library Journal

Product details

• Authors: Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9781888160437
• ISBN: 978-1-888160-43-7
• No. of pages: 229
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 372 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies