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The Shelf Life of Ashes

A Memoir
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• Nearly 10 million adult “children” over the age of 50 provide care for their aging parents in the US, and they themselves are aging, which makes the conversation about this topic urgent and compelling. • Women who were 65 in 2014 can expect to live another 24 years, to age 86—a fact that’s leading many of us to think about the quality of life in later years. • According to the US State Department, US families adopted more than 7,000 children in 2012. This book explores what issues with this familial arrangement persist today. • The number of American Buddhists is booming (an American Religious Identification Survey posits that from 1990 to 2000, Buddhism grew 170%). Practitioners, initiates, and those who are spiritually inclined will be drawn to this story.

Author Biography:

A practicing Buddhist for over thirty years, Hollis Giammatteo has sought experiences that would challenge her practice, from teaching a method of writing to working with the elderly. She co-founded, managed and wrote plays for The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, PA; it is thriving still. She was also a playwright in residence for the Rhode Island Feminist Theater (RIFT). This was followed by participation in a women’s peace walk, On The Line, which she wrote about in a memoir of that title. She has published in a variety of magazines: Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, Ms., Calyx, Vogue, and Women’s Sports and Fitness, among others. She has also been granted an NEA, awarded a residency at the Cottages at Hedgebrook, and received a PEN/Jerard Award, honoring “a distinguished nonfiction work-in-progress for an emerging woman writer,” for her work On the Line: Memoir of a Peace Walk.
Release date NZ
June 23rd, 2016
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
270
Dimensions
137x213x18
ISBN-13
9781631520471
Product ID
23861694

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