false 2815816 1 In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since <i>Refuge</i>, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Williams has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means to be human in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation.<br><br>Williams begins in Ravenna, Italy, where &#8220;jeweled ceilings became lavish tales&#8221; through the art of mosaic. She discovers that mosaic is not just an art form but a form of integration, and when she returns to the American Southwest, her physical and spiritual home, and observes a clan of prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, she apprehends an ecological mosaic created by a remarkable species in the sagebrush steppes of the Colorado Plateau. And, finally, Williams travels to a small village in Rwanda, where, along with fellow artists, she joins survivors of the 1994 genocide and builds a memorial literally from the rubble of war, an act that becomes a spark for social change and healing.<br><br>A singular meditation on how the natural and human worlds both collide and connect in violence and beauty, this is a work of uncommon perceptions that dares to find intersections between arrogance and empathy, tumult and peace, constructing a narrative of hopeful acts by taking that which is broken and creating something whole. 2841749 7 10 2008 Finding Beauty in a Broken World total:113|5:27|4:42|3:32|2:8|1:4| 113 419 347 56 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 2 1 false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 10 12:48:37 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 12:58:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 5 1 false Mon Nov 10 19:52:13 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 19:55:30 -0800 2008 Mosaic, Terry's search for meaning in a world gone mad is her best since Refuge. I loved this book and even as I felt sad and helpless, it gave me hope that there are good people doing good work everywhere. Her amazing ability to tie seemingly unrelated topics together in ways you...more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 3 0 false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 21:42:13 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 20:45:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 4 0 false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 19:21:21 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 18:10:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 5 1 false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 17:33:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 17:38:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 4 0 false Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 11:39:37 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 11:19:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 4 0 false Tue Nov 03 07:44:44 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 07:47:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 3 0 false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 16:39:07 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 18 12:26:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 4 0 false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 28 21:42:04 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 05 21:16:53 -0700 2009 This book is about how what we do and how we do it can affect other lives. The author shares her feelings and metamorphosis as she moves through several intertwined investigative pha...more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 5 0 false Sun Aug 30 17:04:23 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 17:07:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 2 0 false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 07:17:36 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 07:24:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 3 0 false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 17:24:40 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 17:43:30 -0700 2009 I think things got off to a really good start. I was interested and intrigued. But once Terri started working with the prarie dogs things slowed down for me. I do like prarie dogs and am interested in their plight but it was har...more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 4 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 21:18:59 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 21:23:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 5 0 false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 11:19:29 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 11:21:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 0 0 false Sun Nov 23 08:09:54 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 08:15:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 4 0 false Tue Nov 25 21:49:25 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 21:51:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 3 0 false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 18:27:15 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 17:32:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 09:34:57 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 16:03:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 0 0 false Wed Feb 04 11:28:52 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 11:30:56 -0800 2009 2815816 0375420789 9780375420788 113 56 3.71 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2815816.Finding_Beauty_in_a_Broken_World 4 0 false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 17:11:17 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 11:51:25 -0800 2008
I especially enjoyed reading the section on the mosaics created to...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2815816