The Crack in the Teacup - Softcover

Bodger, Joan

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ISBN 10: 1771362081 ISBN 13: 9781771362085

Publisher: Starburst Digital Rights International inc., 2014

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In The Crack in the Teacup, Joan Bodger has done more than write a fascinating autobiography that reveals the power of stories. With courage, unblinking honesty, the eye of a storyteller, and the pen of a poet, she has shown how a life-and a century-can be shaped and given meaning by personal mythology.

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born in 1923, is a self-proclaimed old woman, whose life is so intertwined with story that she cannot write about one without telling about the other. A well-known storyteller and Gestalt therapist, she finds strength in stories – her own, other people’s, and the myths and legends of the world. She has lived a life that fell apart not once but several times. Each time, she pieced her life together again; she has learned to appreciate both the mosaic and the cracks.

Joan’s father was an officer in the United States Coast Guard; her British mother came from a distinguished – and eccentric – shipping family. Because of her father’s job, she moved frequently from one tough American port town to another. But she also lived for a time in an English country house. Trying to fit herself into each new situation, she not only relied on the family stories she knew so well, but she also became an acute observer of the nuances of class shibboleth, racial prejudice,

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“With the clear-eyed vision of a tribal elder, master storyteller Joan Bodger has given us just what we need for the challenging times ahead: a book so personally true that it touches the soul, and so historically valid that it helps us make sense of the devastating, tumultuous century we’ve just come through. The Crack in the Teacup is a book that’s true on the inside as well as the outside.”
–Sherry Ruth Anderson, co-author of The Feminine Face of God and The Cultural Creatives

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