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The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Essays revisiting themes the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and activist has addressed throughout her career, exploring her conflicting impulses to retreat into inner contemplation and to remain deeply engaged with the world: racism, Africa, solidarity with the Palestinian people, the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, Cuba, health care, and the work of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Subject
biography
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages
Form
essays

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