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Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps
Penguin Press
October 2013
On Sale: October 17, 2013
226 pages
ISBN: 1594205175
EAN: 9781594205170
Kindle: B00C5R778E
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Non-Fiction
A celebration of the relationships that bring us
strength, purpose, and joy
Ties That Bind
honors the people who nourish and strengthen us.
StoryCorps founder Dave Isay draws from ten years of the
revolutionary oral history project’s rich archives,
collecting conversations that celebrate the power of the
human bond and capture the moment at which individuals
become family. Between blood relations, friends, coworkers,
and neighbors, in the most trying circumstances and in the
unlikeliest of places, enduring connections are formed and
lives are forever changed.
The stories shared in
Ties That Bind reveal our need to reach out, to
support, and to share life’s burdens and joys. We meet two
brothers, separately cast out by their parents, who
reconnect and rebuild a new family around each other. We
encounter unexpected joy: A gay woman reveals to her beloved
granddaughter that she grew up believing that family was a
happiness she would never be able to experience. We witness
lifechanging friendship: An Iraq war veteran recalls his
wartime bond with two local children and how his
relationship with his wife helped him overcome the trauma of
losing them.
Against unspeakable odds, at their most
desperate moments, the individuals we meet in Ties That
Bind find their way to one another, discovering hope and
healing. Commemorating ten years of StoryCorps, the
conversations collected in Ties That Bind are
testament to the transformational power of listening.
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