Magical Journey, Katrina Kenison
Magical Journey, Katrina Kenison
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Magical Journey
An Apprenticeship in Contentment

Author: Katrina Kenison

Narrator: Katrina Kenison

Unabridged: 9 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/08/2013


Synopsis

From the author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day comes an intimate memoir of loss, self-discovery, and growth that will resonate deeply with any woman who has ever mourned the passage of time, questioned her own purpose, or wondered, "Do I have what it takes to create something new in my life?"​

"No longer indispensable, no longer assured of our old carefully crafted identities, no longer beautiful in the way we were at twenty or thirty or forty, we are hungry and searching nonetheless."

With the candor and warmth that have endeared her to readers, Kenison reflects on the inevitable changes wrought by time: the death of a dear friend, children leaving home, recognition of her own physical vulnerability, and surprising shifts in her marriage. She finds solace in the notion that midlife is also a time of unprecedented opportunity for growth as old roles and responsibilities fall away, and unanticipated possibilities appear on the horizon.

More a spiritual journey than a physical one, Kenison's beautifully crafted exploration begins and ends with a home, a life, a marriage. But this metamorphosis proves as demanding as any trek or pilgrimage to distant lands-it will guide and inspire every woman who finds herself asking: "What now?"

About Katrina Kenison

Katrina Kenison has been the annual editor of The Best American Short Stories since 1990. Along with John Updike, she edited The Best American Short Stories of the Century, a New York Times bestseller. Also the coeditor of Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood, she has written essays that have appeared in such publications as Redbook and Ladies’ Home Journal. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and their two sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lynne on February 23, 2013

My first reaction to this book was, frankly, a little negative. I confess I found myself bummed out, thinking, "only privileged women who can afford to stay home and raise kids, who define themselves by that experience, would fail to notice the fact of their own mortality. And then be so shaken by i......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on January 10, 2013

Luminous. Chockablock with wisdom.......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on May 16, 2016

Where was this book 20 years ago? It would have been very helpful. I have been down this road--menopause, empty nest, career change (husband retiring, home 24/7). I had to find a way to achieve my happiness and inter-self even though everything else in my life was turned upside down. Katrina used yo......more

Goodreads review by Susan on January 26, 2013

A beautifully sensitive description of the author's mid-life journey to finding a new version of her life, as her children leave home and she feels somehow at a crucial bend in the road. We discover, through her honest and thoughtful searching, that our lives are enriched by quiet soul-searching and......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on October 03, 2016

"If you fear change, you will miss the abundance of your life." I dog-eared SO many pages of this memoir, because I recognized myself in almost every one of them. Katrina Kenison has a talent for words. She is able to communicate things that seem incommunicable... and in doing so, she is creating a......more