Scott Russell Sanders is such a fugure with a sensitive core. His new book becomes an essential story of the head and heart, senses and intuition combined, giving us all firm ground. In these personal yet universal writings Sanders answers our own private doubts by confirming our collective human spirit. For his personal nonfiction, Scott Russell Sanders has won the Lannan Literary Award and the Great Lakes Book Award. His essays have a way of getting into your head and accompanying you like familiar spirits. . . .
Sanders lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
This is an extraordinary book by one of America's most elegant writers. It is a veritable treasure trove of wisdom served up with love, imaginative verve, and spiritual sensitivity. . . . Here is the perfect gift to give to new parents or to ardent youth who yearn for reasons to keep on keeping on. Beacon Press Dram.