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false <![CDATA[The Possibility of Everything]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255617270m/6539497.jpg 6539497 1 From the bestselling author of Motherless Daughters, here is the real-life story of one woman’s search for a cure to her family’s escalating troubles, and the leap of faith that took her on a journey to an exotic place and a new state of mind. In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman adrift, questioning her marriage, her profession, and her place in the larger world. Feeling vulnerable and isolated, she was primed for change. Into her stagnant routine dropped Dodo, her three-year-old daughter Maya’s curiously disruptive imaginary friend. Confused and worried about how to handle Dodo’s apparent hold on their daughter, Edelman and her husband made the unlikely choice to take her to Maya healers in Belize, hoping that a shaman might help them banish Dodo–and, as they came to understand, all he represented–from their lives. An account of how an otherwise mainstream mother and wife finds herself making an extremely unorthodox choice, The Possibility of Everything chronicles the magical week in Central America that transformed Edelman from a person whose past had led her to believe only in the visible and the “proven” to someone open to the idea of larger, unseen forces. This deeply affecting, beautifully written memoir of a family’s emotional journey explores what Edelman and her husband went looking for in the jungle and what they ultimately discovered–as parents, as spouses, and as ordinary people–about the things that possess and destroy, or that can heal us all. 6731725 15 9 2009 The Possibility of Everything total:66|5:15|4:28|3:18|2:3|1:2| 66 249 234 46 4 0 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 15:29:01 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 15:32:09 -0700 2009 Author: Hope Edelman
ISBN: 978-0-345-50650-4
Pages: 323
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 4.5 out of 5

Summary: In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman adrift, ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 19:48:16 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 19:48:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 09:54:43 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 10:04:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 08:50:48 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 08:54:15 -0700 2009
This is the first book I've read by Hope Edelman, and it won't be my last. Some so called "memoirs" are written solely because the author thinks he/she has somet...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 19:05:28 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 19:07:17 -0700 2009
I truly enjoyed the parts of the story that were focused...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:01:15 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:08:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 07 07:43:32 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 09:14:14 -0700 2009
Edelman's daughter...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 03 17:59:36 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 17:05:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 true false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 18:34:07 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 11:55:35 -0700 2009
If I could give three and a half stars, I would. The strength of Edelman's writing is evident in the fact that I was engrossed even though Edelman herself (as a character...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 02:59:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 22:24:58 -0700 2009 There is a magic quality about this book that captivates you from the very moment you read the first page until you reach the ending.
Nothing could keep me away from...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 13:48:13 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 09:19:13 -0700 2009 Another well-written book I’ve received as part of the First Reads program from GoodReads, The Possibility of Everything chronicles Edelman’s experiences as a mother to a three-year-old daughter with a disturbing imaginary friend. Edelman’s writing is smooth and easily kept me turning the pag...

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This is the story of a semi-neurotic mother whose daughter starts to act out and blame it on an imaginary friend. There is one scene, near the beginning of the book where there is a birthday party going on downstairs an...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 03:32:29 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 12:33:32 -0700 2009 1
Hope is a mother and wife with whom I related to in many ways. The devastating loss of her own mother at a young age left her crippled emotionally. To cope she tried to replace the emptiness lef...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 17:08:15 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 17:13:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 16:55:08 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 17:02:17 -0700 2009
The story is about a mother's quest to rid her daughter of her imaginary friend through whatever means necessary, even if they are unconventional, to say the least. It reads as part memoir, part travel diary...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 19:27:26 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 18:51:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 12:49:22 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 10:54:40 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 15:11:39 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 15:21:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 10:39:42 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 10:40:51 -0700 2009
i was extremely engrossed in this book, from page one straight through to the end. i found the story of this families' trials and tribulations due to a newly discovered "invisible friend" of Maya, the 3 ye...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6539497