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How do we grieve our losses? How can we care for our spirits? One long listening offers enduring companionship to anyone who has ever asked these searing, timeless questions.
For readers of “The Wild Edge of Sorrow” and “Crying in H-Mart”.
Immigrant daughter, novice chaplain, bereaved friend: author Chenxing Han (Be the Refuge) braids a bittersweet journey through grief, love, and impermanence-and reconnects us to both the heartache and inexplicable brightness of being human.
Eddying around three autumns of Han's life, one long listening takes readers from a mountaintop monastery in Taiwan to west-coast oncology wards, from oceanside Ireland to riverfront Phnom Penh. Through letters to a dying friend, bedside chaplaincy visits, and memories of a migratory childhood, Han's searching, nonlinear memoir renders a singular portrait of a spiritual caregiver in training...while grappling with the complexities of life and loss that are universal to us all.
Just as we touch the depths, bracing for resolution, Han's swift and clever prose sweeps us back to unknowingness, the brightness, absurdity, and heartache of her memoir are both delicious and frustrating. She holds a mirror to what it is to grieve, to absorb, to lose your footing and emerge again to (maybe) find peace.
One long listening examines what we give to others and how we give back to ourselves, asking what we owe to the people and places we call home. A testament to enduring connection by a fresh and urgent new literary voice, one long listening asks fearlessly into the stories we inhabit, how we enter hope, and what it means simply to be, to and for the ones we love.
For readers of “The Wild Edge of Sorrow” and “Crying in H-Mart”.
Immigrant daughter, novice chaplain, bereaved friend: author Chenxing Han (Be the Refuge) braids a bittersweet journey through grief, love, and impermanence-and reconnects us to both the heartache and inexplicable brightness of being human.
Eddying around three autumns of Han's life, one long listening takes readers from a mountaintop monastery in Taiwan to west-coast oncology wards, from oceanside Ireland to riverfront Phnom Penh. Through letters to a dying friend, bedside chaplaincy visits, and memories of a migratory childhood, Han's searching, nonlinear memoir renders a singular portrait of a spiritual caregiver in training...while grappling with the complexities of life and loss that are universal to us all.
Just as we touch the depths, bracing for resolution, Han's swift and clever prose sweeps us back to unknowingness, the brightness, absurdity, and heartache of her memoir are both delicious and frustrating. She holds a mirror to what it is to grieve, to absorb, to lose your footing and emerge again to (maybe) find peace.
One long listening examines what we give to others and how we give back to ourselves, asking what we owe to the people and places we call home. A testament to enduring connection by a fresh and urgent new literary voice, one long listening asks fearlessly into the stories we inhabit, how we enter hope, and what it means simply to be, to and for the ones we love.