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A Sudden Sun
Where does courage come from?
From your genes, your city, the times you live in, the books you read, your sisters?
Courage comes from the stories you learn and the stories you live.
Donna Bradley is a courageous woman. She buried her stillborn baby, Teresa, then buried Teresa’s organs when she discovered the medical authorities had retained them.
Donna creates her own recovery: by campaigning against the toxic waste incinerator; by becoming a scientist; by writing the story of her life as the challenges of the past catch up with the present. She must always be careful not to slide back into the raging fires of grief and the chilling chasms of depression, even when her thirst for knowledge drives her husband away. She combines her personal recovery and her professional role to offer new thinking to her city.
And when she buries a memento of Teresa in the old ground, the caldragh, at her mother’s birthplace beside the beach, where the ancient dead lie, facing the rolling tide, she writes herself into a future unfettered by the past.
From your genes, your city, the times you live in, the books you read, your sisters?
Courage comes from the stories you learn and the stories you live.
Donna Bradley is a courageous woman. She buried her stillborn baby, Teresa, then buried Teresa’s organs when she discovered the medical authorities had retained them.
Donna creates her own recovery: by campaigning against the toxic waste incinerator; by becoming a scientist; by writing the story of her life as the challenges of the past catch up with the present. She must always be careful not to slide back into the raging fires of grief and the chilling chasms of depression, even when her thirst for knowledge drives her husband away. She combines her personal recovery and her professional role to offer new thinking to her city.
And when she buries a memento of Teresa in the old ground, the caldragh, at her mother’s birthplace beside the beach, where the ancient dead lie, facing the rolling tide, she writes herself into a future unfettered by the past.
292 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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February 4, 2018
Excellent. The author never lets you down, be it for stage or curling up with a good book before bed.
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