Bøger af Ellen Woods

This debut memoir is incisive, provocative and astute, unflinching in its revelation of a personal journey rooted in social realities of times past and present. Growing up in Indiana, Woods explores a child's reaction to racial hatred and the Ku Klux Klan with arresting simplicity, as well as her protection of her ill mother, the suicide of a first love, and midlife adoption and parenting. Coming of age during the sixties in Berkeley, her engagement with the Black Panther Party and The Women's Movement revive her childhood dreams of justice and change, yet are unsettling as she encapsulates tough truths. Her life's unfolding delivers to the reader losses and gifts, in full-bodied slice-of-life vignettes that command engagement with all the readers senses. Throughout, Divine guidance appears in the form of old souls, wise teachers and nature.

In her debut memoir, Ellen Woods draws the reader into her progression from an inquisitive Indiana girlhood to the aches and astonishments of adulthood in Berkeley. Through twenty-eight stories, readers are introduced to memorable characters-family, friends, teachers and strangers woven into her life, often with unexpected circumstances. Readers are pulled into the depths of the present moment, and find themselves sharing the author's spiritual and political context. As Woods traces the importance of her meditation practice, we see how silence soothes her and faith emerges through life's stunning transitions. With the cautious wisdom of almost seven decades, she focuses on integrating events of the past and redeeming lost connections. Warriors in Transition is incisive, provocative and astute, unflinchingly honest in its revelation of a personal journey rooted in social realities of times past and present.