Sanctuary

Sanctuary is a powerful memoir of love and loss by Emily Rapp Black, the New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World. It explores the concept of resilience and how we need a more complex understanding of it when applied to stories of loss and healing. The book is full of personal vignettes and wisdom, and Black is a profound inspiration as a writer, mother, and woman.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 21 January 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press

A searing memoir of a mother's love, the meaning of resilience, and the possibilities of life after grief from the New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World.

Congratulations on the resurrection of your life, a colleague wrote to Emily Rapp Black when she announced the birth of her second child. The line made Emily pause. Her first child, Ronan, had died before he turned three years old from Tay-Sachs disease, an experience she wrote about in her first book, The Still Point of the Turning World.

Since that time, her life had changed utterly: she had left the marriage that fractured under the terrible weight of her son's illness, remarried the love of her life, had a flourishing career, and given birth to a healthy baby girl.

But she rejected the idea that she was leaving her old life behind - that she had, in the manner of the mythical phoenix, risen from the ashes and been reborn into a new story, when she carried so much of her old story with her.

More to the point, she wanted to carry it with her. Everyone she met told her she was resilient, strong, courageous in ways they didn't think they could be.

But what did these words mean, really?

Sanctuary.

A lyrical, deep, funny, eyes-wide-open, ultimately comforting book. I adored it, and - if you are searching for how to live in a broken world - so will you.

Lucy Kalanithi, a book of rare power and grace... Reading this extraordinarily thoughtful writer and her luminous prose was, for me, sanctuary.

Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club, A searing memoir of a mother's love, the meaning of resilience, and the possibilities of life after grief from the New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World.

*NYT EDITORS CHOICE*

A searing memoir of a mother's love, the meaning of resilience, and the possibilities of life after grief from the New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World.

Congratulations on the resurrection of your life, a colleague wrote to Emily Rapp Black when she announced the birth of her second child. The line made Emily pause. Her first child, Ronan, had died before he turned three years old from Tay-Sachs disease, an experience she wrote about in her first book, The Still Point of the Turning World.

Since that time, her life had changed utterly: she had left the marriage that fractured under the terrible weight of her son's illness, remarried the love of her life, had a flourishing career, and given birth to a healthy baby girl.

But she rejected the idea that she was leaving her old life behind - that she had, in the manner of the mythical phoenix, risen from the ashes and been reborn into a new story, when she carried so much of her old story with her.

More to the point, she wanted to carry it with her. Everyone she met told her she was resilient, strong, courageous in ways they didn't think they could be.

But what did these words mean, really?

Sanctuary.

A lyrical, deep, funny, eyes-wide-open, ultimately comforting book. I adored it, and - if you are searching for how to live in a broken world - so will you.

Lucy Kalanithi, a book of rare power and grace... Reading this extraordinarily thoughtful writer and her luminous prose was, for me, sanctuary.

Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club, A searing memoir of a mother's love, the meaning of resilience, and the possibilities of life after grief from the New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World.

*NYT EDITORS CHOICE*

A searing memoir of a mother's love, the meaning of resilience, and the possibilities of life after grief from the New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World.

Congratulations on the resurrection of your life, a colleague wrote to Emily Rapp Black when she announced the birth of her second child. The line made Emily pause. Her first child, Ronan, had died before he turned three years old from Tay-Sachs disease, an experience she wrote about in her first book, The Still Point of the Turning World.

Since that time, her life had changed utterly: she had left the marriage that fractured under the terrible weight of her son's illness, remarried the love of her life, had a flourishing career, and given birth to a healthy baby girl.

But she rejected the idea that she was leaving her old life behind - that she had, in the manner of the mythical phoenix, risen from the ashes and been reborn into a new story, when she carried so much of her old story with her.

More to the point, she wanted to carry it with her. Everyone she met told her she was resilient, strong, courageous in ways they didn't think they could be.

But what did these words mean, really?

Sanctuary.

Weight: 350g
Dimension: 145 x 225 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529338676