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Beauty is Williams's most important, most visceral, most demanding work. It should-no must-be read." -
The Baltimore Sun "An amalgam of art, intellect, ecology and spirit. . . . Moving. . . . Terry Tempest Williams's tools are words, ideas, sentences, fragments. . . . She uses them to dig into chosen corners of our world, and to illuminate some unknowns in flickering light." -
The Washington Times "Sublime art. . . . An ambitious, even audacious, work." -
The Denver Post
"Intense, tough, profound. . . . This is an ambitious, risk-taking book that defies narrative conventions and avoids signpost solutions. Yet it also prompts reflection, inspiration, and awe. . . . A resounding hymn to creativity, community and engagement." -
Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Williams is an ecosystem writer-concepts in her world are joined together by physical and spiritual threads...
Finding Beauty in a Broken World offers its answers in fragments, pieces-as a mosaic must.... And yet there is always beauty." -
Los Angeles Times
"Wonderfully descriptive." -
San Francisco Chronicle "In
Finding Beauty in a Broken World, Williams discovers her way along a path that, though at times obscured, leads to an unlikely yet inspired destination. . . . Will stir and reward." -
The Oregonian "[
Finding Beauty in a Broken World] explores deeper and more lyrical territory than other books along the same theme." -
Arizona Daily Sun "Part postmodern memoir, part historical inquiry, part cultural critique and part spiritual meditation." -
The Salt Lake Tribune "This is an essential book. . . . Nonfiction in [Williams's] hands is literature." -
The Bloomsbury Review "Terry Tempest Williams has half-broken my heart with everything she has written. . . .
Finding Beauty in a Broken World will break your heart and put it back together again. It is as powerful in its experiment with form as it is in meaning." -Bill McKibben
"Williams's affecting prose, written with the skill and economy of a poet, enlivens [
Finding Beauty in a Broken World]." -
Real Change "Poignant. . . . Filled with the emotional honesty and grace that we've come to expect from Williams." -
High Country News "Wide awake, utterly open, completely feeling. . . . Williams
presents us with an incredible achievement, a beautiful, terrible, wonderful, hopeful witness. The farthest thing from insanity I've read." -Alexandra Fuller, author of
The Legend of Colton H. Bryant "Williams knows the earth and writes about it with native intimacy, no matter the setting or continent." -
Metro Santa Cruz "Passionate. . . . [
Finding Beauty in a Broken World] will not leave the reader with the thought 'all is well' but with the challenged belief that the beauty in all life can be-and must be-identified, believed in and brought forth." -
New Thought "Behave with dignity. . . . Take the broken pieces you are given and find the new harmony that holds your future. When you finish
Finding Beauty in a Broken World you will look at the landscape of your own life with new eyes." -Blogcritics magazine
"How a book could be this gentle and this heartbreaking simultaneously I do not know. . . . Terry Tempest Williams leads us with methodical accuracy into the devastations and delights of now." -John D'Agata, author of
Halls of Fame