An extraordinary memoir about finding wonder in everyday life, from
magician Nate Staniforth.
Nate Staniforth has spent most of his life and all of his professional
career trying to understand wonder - what it is, where to find it and
how to share it with others. He became a magician because he learned at
a young age that magic tricks don't have to be frivolous. Magic doesn't
have to be about sequins and smoke machines - rather, it can create a
moment of genuine astonishment. But after years on the road as a
professional magician, crisscrossing the country and performing four or
five nights a week every week, Nate was disillusioned, burned out and
ready to quit. Instead, he went to India in search of magic.
Here Is Real Magic follows Nate Staniforth's evolution from an
obsessed young magician to a broken wanderer and back again. It tells
the story of his rediscovery of astonishment - and the importance of
wonder in everyday life - during his trip to the slums of India, where
he infiltrated a 3,000-year-old clan of street magicians. Here Is Real
Magic is a call to all of us - to welcome awe back into our lives, to
marvel in the everyday and to seek magic all around us.
