{"product_id":"pages-of-a-broken-diary-9781948920285","title":"Pages of a Broken Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Toti O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Pski's Porch Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Pski's Porch Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToti O'Brien's memoir in pieces reflects a life deeply felt and keenly observed. Her poetic writing is by\u003cbr\u003eturns exquisitely beautiful, jarringly disturbing, and always unafraid. She addresses layers of her\u003cbr\u003eexperience in a brilliant stream-of-consciousness style that I find to be utterly unique. These\u003cbr\u003ephilosophical, mysterious, and vivid musings lead the reader through adventure, longing, pain, and joy. I\u003cbr\u003ehighly recommend this remarkable literary achievement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRosemary L'Esprit, Author of UNDERWATER: A Mother's Search for Her Missing Daughter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Broken Diary isn't. It is neither a diary nor is it broken. Undeniably, the book's tone\u003cbr\u003eis melancholic, poignant, and replete with losses: broken families, broken hearts, broken\u003cbr\u003epromises, broken lives. But simultaneously, it is a gifted poet's understated yet powerful\u003cbr\u003ereminiscences of and ruminations on her life, on the human experience with its\u003cbr\u003esingularity and universality, shared precious memory by precious memory with us\u003cbr\u003ereaders in deeply personal, elegant essays that grab us from the outset. O'Brien's style\u003cbr\u003eis gently conversational, addressing us, asking us questions to keep us up with her, \u003cbr\u003emusing on a truth she just shared, asking us to consider her point. She is like a beloved\u003cbr\u003eparent, or teacher, or shaman nudging us to think beyond the obvious, beyond\u003cbr\u003estrictures, beyond bonds that delimit us, clouding our vision, obscuring self.\u003cbr\u003e--Thelma T. Reyna\u003cbr\u003eNational Award-Winning Author","brand":"Pski's Porch Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45545626468503,"sku":"9781948920285","price":1167.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781948920285.webp?v=1767908603","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/pages-of-a-broken-diary-9781948920285","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}