The Bird With a Broken Wing

by DeeAnn Brandon

While in her prime, DeeAnn Brandon was confronted with divorce, her daughter’s death, and near-fatal flashbacks of childhood rape. In order to heal she departed from psychology’s current fads and psychiatry’s crippling drug cures to forge her own path in the wilderness of the mind. The Bird with a Broken Wing takes you on an unforgettable journey of the heart. Out of the conflicting influences of the Old West and the New, the dramatic story of her turbulent struggle for identity emerges. The daughter of a Colorado sheep rancher and potato farmer, DeeAnn’s heart is in the land. The great-great-granddaughter of pioneers, she’s raised on stories about visionaries who risked everything and suffered tragic losses to achieve their dreams. A resilient idealist, it seems there isn’t anything she can’t survive, until she’s in her prime. Instead of soaring toward her dreams, the bird with a broken wing hovers in the dark alleys of her soul, her noble visions shriveling to pleas for sanity. Yet a child’s prayer to see heaven on earth won’t let her give up the fight. She writes to tap truths worth living for. And she asks questions that take you deep into her roots, both on earth and heaven, to find surprising answers. They are her answers, but they compel you to find their own. The writing of this book is the triumphant culmination of years of work. In the author’s words, "The Bird with a Broken Wing is my song."

236 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

Reviews

[Taryn]

this book was a little hard to get into but all in all it was pretty good. this book takes you through a journey of many up & downs, emotional situtions (both good and bad),and is just a story about strugel and win. some of the stuff covered in the story have to do wih rape,devorice,abuse,death of a loved one, and love. i would recomend this book for anyone who has strugeled with there identity,gone through a tough situation or just for the hell of it because its very intresting and tho its a little sad and depresing it's also up-lifting and sweet with lots of life lessons and stuff learned.