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The Same Sky
The Same Sky
The Same Sky
Audiobook7 hours

The Same Sky

Written by Amanda Eyre Ward

Narrated by Maria Cabezas

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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The New York Times bestselling author of HOW TO BE LOST delivers her most ambitious work to date. HOMECOMING is a novel about motherhood, desire, and faith, set amongst the changing lives of Americans along the border, and featuring two women who connect just for an instant and change each other's lives forever.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 20, 2015
ISBN9781490650098
The Same Sky
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Amanda Eyre Ward

Amanda Eyre Ward was born in New York City, and graduated from Williams College and the University of Montana. Her short stories have been published in various literary reviews and magazines. She is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning novel ‘Sleep Towards Heaven’ and ‘How to be Lost’, and was named by the New York Post as one of five Writers to Watch in 2003. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, geologist Tip Meckel.

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    I bought this book at the suggestion of a therapist I have been seeing. I did my best to work through the activities and ignore his constant attacks on my Catholic faith and religion in general.What eventually led me to put down this book was Chapter 7: Reclaiming Your School Age Self. In this chapter, he shames the whole system and gripes about how schools are set up to harm children. He compares them to prisons and calls the grading system "very shaming and distressing" which "creates toxic shame." "In our schools," he says, "if you did not learn geometry as fast as other kids your age, you failed geometry." Essentially, this is a child's voice couched in pseudo-academic language. It sounds as if, years later, he hasn't gotten over the fact that math wasn't his strongest subject. I disagree with him on what he says here (and in many other places), and while reading it I feel he is trying to shame me with the "toxic shame" he so often decries simply because I disagree with him.Throughout what I read, Bradshaw complains about how the world is out to hurt everyone. You'll begin to wonder how anyone makes it through life at all. His tone is whiny, self-righteous and sanctimonious. His book advocates embracing victim-hood instead of becoming a warrior who has overcome your problems.If you want to remain a child with even greater problems, buy this book and start sucking your thumb. Otherwise, keep looking, and keep living.