**An eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in the American Midwest.** During Sarah Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. By telling the s
On being human: a memoir of waking up, living real, and listening hard
โ Scribed by Lidia Yuknavitch; Jennifer Pastiloff
- Book ID
- 100617733
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group; Dutton
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 1524743577
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โฆ Synopsis
An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how deafness taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness.
Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops, On Being Human is the story of how a starved person grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning.
Jen did not intend to become a yoga teacher, but when she was given the opportunity to host her own retreats, she left her thirteen-year waitressing job and said "yes," despite crippling fears of her inexperience and her own potential. After years of feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless, in a life that seemed to have no escape, she healed her own heart by caring for others. She has learned to fiercely listen despite being nearly deaf, to banish...
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