A USA Today Must Read New Book
**From the bestselling author of Women Rowing North and Reviving
Ophelia-a memoir in essays reflecting on radiance, resilience, and the
constantly changing nature of reality.
In her luminous new memoir in essays, Mary Pipher-as she did in her New
York Times bestseller Women Rowing North-taps into a cultural moment,
to offer wisdom, hope, and insight into loss and change. Drawing from
her own experiences and expertise as a psychologist specializing in
women, trauma, and the effect of our culture on our mental health, she
looks inward in A Life in Light to what shaped her as a woman, one who
has experienced darkness throughout her life but was always drawn to the
light.
Her plainspoken depictions of her hard childhood and life's difficulties
are dappled with moments of joy and revelation, tragedies and ordinary
miseries, glimmers and shadow. As a child, she was separated from her
parents for long periods. Those separations affected her deeply, but in
A Life in Light she explores what she's learned about how to balance
despair with joy, utilizing and sharing with readers every coping skill
she has honed during her lifetime to remind us that there is a silver
thread of resilience that flows through all of life, and that despite
our despair, the light will return.
In this book, she points us toward that light.
