Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal - Softcover

Remen, Rachel Naomi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573226629 ISBN 13: 9781573226622

Publisher: Riverhead Trade, 1997

Synopsis

The founder of Commonweal discusses the problem of isolation and disconnection in American society and sets forth her vision of how life should be lived, drawing on her work as a psycho-oncologist and her own experience with a life-threatening disease. 75,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo.

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Review:

"Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time," writes Rachel Naomi Remen in her introduction to Kitchen Table Wisdom. "It is the way wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us live a life worth remembering." Remen, a physician, therapist, professor of medicine, and long-term survivor of chronic illness, is also a down-home storyteller. Reading this collection of real-life parables feels like a late-night kitchen session with a best friend, munching on leftovers while listening to the good-as-gossip stories of everyday heroes and archetype villains. Every story guides us like a life compass, showing us what's good and lasting about ourselves as well as humanity.

About the Author:

Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. has been counseling those with chronic and terminal illness for more than twenty years. She is cofounder and medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program in Bolinas, California, and is currently clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Trade
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1573226629
• ISBN 13: 9781573226622
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback