The Book That Started It All

A writer returns to the West Texas desert in search of a story to explain early childhood losses, including a sister’s death, father’s disappearance, and an overnight move. Juggling a career as a writer, professor, and spiritual director, she returns to face the land where high winds haunted her early life, hunting for the story that will mend a fractured relationship with her mother and help her come to terms with a lifelong pattern of abandonment. Blending ancestral storytelling with mystery, this is a memoir that will inspire the reader to believe in the power of story to transform the storyteller into a story carrier, where the magic of healing can begin.