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Kitchen Table Wisdom & My Grandfather's Blessings

Rachel Naomi Remen returns with an expanded edition of a book first published as Kitchen Table Wisdom, a bestseller that considers suffering, meaning, love, faith and the miracles people encounter in ordinary life. Drawing on her years as a doctor, a teacher of medicine, a counsellor and someone who has lived with a long illness herself, she argues that modern life, for all its tools, often leaves people lonely and unfulfilled. Her remedy is simple: listen to one another's stories. The collection gathers true accounts that show what the most important things in life can offer us, even when they cannot be measured.

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