GLENDA BURGESS is a winner of the Rupert Hughes Award for literary fiction and a New Century Writer Award short story finalist. Her memoir, The Geography of Love, was celebrated as one of the Ten Best Books of 2008 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a 2008 Books for a Better Life Award finalist, and a Target Breakout Book Pick, a Top 25 carried nationwide.
Book Review for GENTLY READ LITERATURE by Glenda Burgess"Dazed Birds," review of Brad Watson's Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives
Dear Reader,
Welcome to a new writing year! I'm finishing the manuscript of a novel I truly can't wait to share with you, a story of art and passion across generations, sunny Italy to dramatic Argentina. And...a new memoir. Reflections on the gift of second chances - at love, purpose and meaning, our attempts to get life right.
I invite you to comment on questions of life on my regular blog "Quintessence" and connect with me on Twitter@GlendaBurgess. From time to time, current book and poetry reviews will be available via links under "New and Notable," and let's get together - schedule a 2012 Book Club chat for your reading club! Thank you for reading my work,
Glenda Burgess
TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2008 - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
2008 BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE AWARD, finalist
A tender and intimate memoir that will resonate with readers of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Susan Duncan's Salvation Creek
Target Breakout Book Pick A Top 25 book carried nationwide.
PRAISE FOR THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE
"Burgess' tender recollections... remind us that we tend to be defined by our great loves well after we have outlived them." - Elle Magazine
"I read Glenda Burgess' poignant and harrowing memoir in one sitting-in one breath-and all I had ever felt about love's ability to vanquish everything, to swallow heartbreak, to correct history, Burgess makes us believe. And in a fashion that reads like a classic novel." -Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean.
"This generous book, both primer and elegy, chronicles a courageous woman’s journey forward into love’s complexities…and long after I’ve closed the book, convinced me to embrace and savor wholly each day, each moment, each love, before they, too, are gone." - Katrina Roberts, author of The Quick, and Friendly Fire, Idaho Prize for Poetry
"The Geography of Love" means many others can indeed share in {Burgess'} memories, be inspired by them, reflect on what this one shining marriage teaches about love and happiness, trust and instinct, faith and loss." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Burgess lyrically and perceptively explores how the body, emotions and experiences are connected, how love and misfortune affect that landscape... Wrenchingly painful, but intensely affecting." - Kirkus
"Burgess' journey possesses bravery and open-eyed clarity." - Publishers Weekly
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