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Harper
February 2010
On Sale: February 1, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 0061628344
EAN: 9780061628344
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In her midforties and settled into the responsibilities and
routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more
questions than answers. Was this all life was—a hodgepodge
of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do lists?
What did it all mean? Having grown up in a deeply religious and traditional
family, Shapiro had no personal sense of faith, despite
repeated attempts to create a connection to something
greater. Feeling as if she was plunging headlong into what
Carl Jung termed "the afternoon of life," she wrestled with
self-doubt and a searing disquietude that would awaken her
in the middle of the night. Set adrift by loss—her father's
early death; the life-threatening illness of her infant son;
her troubled relationship with her mother—she had become
edgy and uncertain. At the heart of this anxiety, she
realized, was a challenge: What did she believe? Spurred on
by the big questions her young son began to raise, Shapiro
embarked upon a surprisingly joyful quest to find meaning in
a constantly changing world. The result is Devotion: a
literary excavation to the core of a life. In this spiritual detective story, Shapiro explores the
varieties of experience she has pursued—from the rituals of
her black hat Orthodox Jewish relatives to yoga shalas and
meditation retreats. A reckoning of the choices she has made
and the knowledge she has gained, Devotion is the story of a
woman whose search for meaning ultimately leads her home.
Her journey is at once poignant and funny, intensely
personal—and completely universal.
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