About the author:
Terry Tempest Williams is full to the brim. When she was younger, she wrote books about her life with and separation from her Mormon family and the church itself; about our distance from nature; about democracy, freedom and responsibility; about communicating with stones. Williams is an ecosystem writer — concepts in her world are joined together by physical and spiritual threads. For some, she can be too much. No vessel, least of all a book, can contain her.
Review:
The book requires some effort, yes. The mind is not always ready to connect pieces for itself, especially in a world that is more than happy to make connections for you. But Williams fills “Finding Beauty in a Broken World” with so many glinting surfaces that the mind wants to connect them: the wide-open eyes of the prairie dog, and those of the mother watching her 5-year-old daughter raped and discarded; the bones in the American Museum of Natural History, and the bones in the church where 10,000 Rwandan people were murdered; the dignity of Lily, the artist who invited Williams and others to Rwanda to build a wall of names of the victims of the genocide, and that of William’s own father, “direct and unapologetic in the losses he has suffered.”
‘Finding Beauty in a Broken World’ by Terry Tempest Williams
By Susan Salter Reynolds
Los Angeles Times 30 November 2008
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-terry-tempest-williams30-2008nov30,0,3227571.story
