In this book, "The Center For Winter" you will find yourself wanting so much to wrap the people in your arms and hold them. This is the saddest and sweetest book I have ever read. Their sweet unspoken understandings of one another will make you smile with tears. Kate loves her brother more than she'd like to admit. Kate and Davey are inseparable-there is not one without the other. His mother says he has the "sick-sads" that he quite possibly inherited from his father who eventually kills himself. He has his "darks" and is hospitalized, institutionalized and eventually brought home and stabilizes. Esau is Kate's twelve yr old brother who seems to have Bipolar Disorder. Davey and Kate are six yrs old and the best of friends. This read both warms you and breaks your heart. Eliot, and their miniature dachsunds Milton and Dante. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband Jeff, their cats Shakespeare and T.S. The recipient of a host of awards for journalism and a Pulitzer Prize nominee, Marya has lectured at universities around the country, taught writing and literature, and published in academic and literary journals since 1992. It is already being called "the most visceral, important book on mental illness to be published in years." It will be published in April of 2008. Marya's new memoir Madness: A Life (Houghton Mifflin) is an intense, beautifully written book about the difficulties, and promise, of living with mental illness.
Her second book, the acclaimed novel The Center of Winter (HarperCollins, 2005) has been called "masterful," "gorgeous writing," "a stunning acheivement of storytelling," "delicious," and "compulsive reading." Told in three voices, by six-year-old Kate, her mentally ill brother Esau, and their mother Claire, The Center of Winter is the story of a family recovering from a father's suicide in the spare, wintry Minnesota north, a story of struggle, transformation, and hope. What started as a crazy idea suggested by a writer friend became the classic book that has been published in fourteen languages, is taught in universities and writing programs all over the world, and has, according to the thousands of letters Marya has received over the years, changed lives. Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.), in 1998, when she was twenty-three.
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