Description: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
In this exquisite book of personal reflections on a woman's life as a child, wife, and mother, Kathryn Harrison, "a writer of extraordinary gifts" (Tobias Wolff), recalls episodes in her life, exploring how the experiences of childhood recur in memory, to be transformed and sometimes healed through the lives we lead as adults. At the heart of Seeking Rapture is the notion that a woman's journey is a continuous process of transformation, an ongoing transcendence and re-creation of self.Review Quotes: "Seeking Rapture is the biography of a hungry heart. . . . Affecting, beautifully crafted autobiographical meditations."
--The Boston Globe
--The New York Times Book Review "[A] rich collection . . . Harrison aims, over the distance of time and often with dazzling accuracy, for unflinching display of motivations. . . . Such fastidious recall is a Proustian gift. With all due regard for her achievement as a novelist, Harrison appears Proust-like in another respect: She is her own truest subject, an unending wellspring of emotion and restless quest."
--Los Angeles Times "Harrison remains a master of her craft, with musings that are lyrical, insightful, and haunting."
--Entertainment Weekly "It's her fierce devotion to her absent mother that gives this book its shimmering grace."
--Organic Style "Poignant glimpses into the life of a survivor."
--Kirkus Reviews "The prose sings....Harrison [is] at her thoughtful, provocative best, mindful of the flaws and desires within everyone."
--Publishers Weekly