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Finding Beauty in a Broken World (Paperback)

By: Terry Tempest Williams (Author)

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In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since "Refuge," 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.
Williams begins in Ravenna, Italy, where "jeweled ceilings became lavish tales" 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.
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.

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Terry Tempest Williams seeks the connection between devastation and redemption, as she struggles to find a metaphor to help her mourn her brother's death with benevolence. Williams begins in Ravenna, Italy, where she studies the craft of mosaics and learns to appreciate the intricate wisdom of assemblage, wherein many separate parts, each having its own artistic jurisdiction, are combined to form a more magnificent whole. Back home in Utah, Williams finds a similar pattern of conjunction in the systematic chasms and the linguistic chattering of a group of endangered prairie dogs. Finally, she travels to Rwanda, site of some of the most abhorrent human depravity in recent memory, where she helps a group of survivors construct a memorial from the bones of victims. Williams's form reflects her content, as this mesmerizing mosaic of language and emotions converges into a fractured portrait which maps a possible path to salvation.

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