Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In Living With a Wild God, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find ""the Truth"" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone. It was the kind of event that people call a ""mystical experience""-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist, nothing less than shattering.
In Living With a Wild God, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. With her signature combination of intellectual rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to entertain but amaze.
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This is very sad. Among Ehrenreich’s excellent books, possibly the best and most surprising is Living With a Wild God. Her critique of positive thinking in Bright-Sided, is also compulsory. https://t.co/JHBY3C6biQ
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What I read this week: "The Kingdom of Sand" by Andrew Holleran "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok "My Own Two Feet" by Beverly Cleary "Living with a Wild God" by Barbara Ehrenreich What are you reading? #GretchenRubinReads @fsgbooks @simonschuster @HarperCollinsUK @twelvebooks https://t.co/Uyl2p4OPDo
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her semi-autobiography is incredible: Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything, by Barbara Ehrenreich https://t.co/Nob0urj7Ix