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A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Grand Central Publishing
April 2014
On Sale: April 8, 2014
256 pages
ISBN: 145550176X
EAN: 9781455501762
Kindle: B00ECE9OT8
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From the New York Times bestselling author of
Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and
exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see
the world.
Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most
important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she
is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social
justice. In LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, she recounts her
quest-beginning in childhood-to find "the Truth" about the
universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why
are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she
had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an
event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all
the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone.
It was the kind of event that people call a "mystical
experience"-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist,
nothing less than shattering.
In LIVING WITH A WILD
GOD, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing
an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young
girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one
point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply
personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a
profound reflection on science, religion, and the human
condition. With her signature combination of intellectual
rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true
literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to
entertain but amaze.
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