You Carry the Heavy Stuff Esther BradleyDeTally 9780557209330 Books
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You Carry the Heavy Stuff contains essays and poetry regarding desolation in an office cubicle, internal/external adventures through life, as well as illness, recovery, job search, writing workshops and life as a twin.
You Carry the Heavy Stuff Esther BradleyDeTally 9780557209330 Books
This book found its way to me through a friend. Then it sat in my "maybe I should read this" pile for a year. When I finally did pick it up, the first four entries went down easy enough, each one bringing a smile to a different corner of my mouth. But Dick Hart caught me off guard, and I literally LOL'd. When this was followed up by "The History of Language", I was hooked.First, though, I stopped to take another look at the cover, and the back? Who was this woman, and where did she get the nerve and the insight to address the issues of our time, and our species, with such irreverent profundity.
From that point on in the book, I consumed each serving slowly, deliberately, allowing each one to both delight and illuminate my palate.
The variety of styles, filling each and every nook and cranny of the genre of vignetted memoirs, is exceeded only by the range of topics and the breadth of vocabulary. Growing up. Work. Sibling rivalry and affection. Race. Business. Religion. Economics. Life and Death. But what is most amazing is how even Esther's to-do list becomes literature.
And that it all works. Somehow.
It's hard to pinpoint, really, why it all works.
It has something to do with Esther.
May we be blessed to read more from her.
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You Carry the Heavy Stuff Esther BradleyDeTally 9780557209330 Books Reviews
Esther Bradley-DeTally makes "carrying the heavy stuff" pure delight, a safari of the mind, a Himalayan trek for the soul. Make no mistake, the stuff you are asked to carry is heavy, no frothy meringue in this book - a woman toiling and chaffing at a mindless job, a return late in life to the university and her love of literature, relationships run amok, the pain of sitting by a hospice bedside watching her twin sister die. But the weight is lifted by a lightness of being, by insights and humor to mend the heart and maybe even mankind of his endless pillaging. A few chubby pug dogs add lightness too.
Esther's sorcery is in the words, images that startle us, mixing the mundane with sublime Caldwell cows with "haiku coats" grazing outside her dying sister's window, death the color of a rainbow, like "riding the Ferris Wheel higher than ever before."
When you read this gem of a book, take along a large empty suitcase for all the "stuff" you will want to collect and carry back home to use daily. Don't worry about packing hope on top. It's unbreakable.
Kathryn Jordan, author of the novels, Hot Water (Berkley/Penguin 2006) and Gladys And Capone (2008).
The somewhat light hearted title of this book belies the power of
the essays within. The strength of the messages has called me back
and I'm going to read the book again. The book, overall, gives a
picture of a remarkable woman, a woman with strength and a solid
commitment to carry out her intentions. The book is well-written
and personal. May Sarton taught me that revealing the personal only
gains value when it speaks to the human condition and May Sarton
would be proud of Esther Bradley-DeTally, as I am, lowly and
largely unpublished gnat that I am. This book is the second book
Ms. Bradley-DeTally has written. The first book, Without a Net, A
Sojourn in Russia, is packed with adventures and the glee of
meeting new people in a different culture and learning to love them
and while it was a pleasure to read, I find that You Carry the
Heavy Stuff clearly shows the author to be a more mature and
evolved human. Appreciating the second book as much as I do, I
can't help but wonder what will come next.
Gayle Hoover, Rancho Cordova, California
This book found its way to me through a friend. Then it sat in my "maybe I should read this" pile for a year. When I finally did pick it up, the first four entries went down easy enough, each one bringing a smile to a different corner of my mouth. But Dick Hart caught me off guard, and I literally LOL'd. When this was followed up by "The History of Language", I was hooked.
First, though, I stopped to take another look at the cover, and the back? Who was this woman, and where did she get the nerve and the insight to address the issues of our time, and our species, with such irreverent profundity.
From that point on in the book, I consumed each serving slowly, deliberately, allowing each one to both delight and illuminate my palate.
The variety of styles, filling each and every nook and cranny of the genre of vignetted memoirs, is exceeded only by the range of topics and the breadth of vocabulary. Growing up. Work. Sibling rivalry and affection. Race. Business. Religion. Economics. Life and Death. But what is most amazing is how even Esther's to-do list becomes literature.
And that it all works. Somehow.
It's hard to pinpoint, really, why it all works.
It has something to do with Esther.
May we be blessed to read more from her.
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