num_pages: 256
description: "The inadvertent shooting death of his brother by poet Orr gives this memoir a god-awful specific gravity and spurs the author's search for ways to live on…Here, the old and new meanings of 'blessing' - to sprinkle with blood, to confer spiritual power - harrowingly collide." - Kirkus Review
language: English
title: The Blessing: A Memoir
titlecomplete: The Blessing: A Memoir
genres: Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Coming Of Age, Biography Memoir, Poetry, Writing, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 270
publisher: Council Oak Books