{"product_id":"one-long-listening-a-memoir-of-grief-friendship-and-spiritual-care-9781623177850","title":"One Long Listening: A Memoir of Grief, Friendship, and Spiritual Care","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Edge of Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCrying in H-Mart\u003c\/i\u003e--a profound and searching memoir of life, loss, grief, and renewal from one of American Buddhism's most vital new voices. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How do we grieve our losses? How can we care for our spirits? \u003ci\u003eone long listening \u003c\/i\u003eoffers enduring companionship to all who ask these searing, timeless questions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImmigrant daughter, novice chaplain, bereaved friend: author Chenxing Han (\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBe the Refuge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e) takes us on a pilgrimage through the wilds of grief and laughter, pain and impermanence, reconnecting us to both the heartache and inexplicable brightness of being human. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEddying around three autumns of Han's life, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eone long listening\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e journeys from a mountaintop monastery in Taiwan to West Coast oncology wards, from oceanside Ireland to riverfront Phnom Penh. Through letters to a dying friend, bedside chaplaincy visits, and memories of a migratory childhood, Han's startling, searching memoir cuts a singular portrait of a spiritual caregiver in training. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust as we touch the depths, bracing for resolution, Han's swift, multilingual prose sweeps us back to unknowingness: 不知最親切. \u003ci\u003eNot knowing is most intimate\u003c\/i\u003e. Chinese mothers, hillside graves. A dreamed olive tree, a lost Siberian crane. The music of scripts and silence. These shards--bright, broken, giddy, aching--are mirrors to our own lives in joy and sorrow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA testament to enduring connection by a fresh and urgent new literary voice, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eone long listening\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e asks fearlessly into the stories we inhabit, the hopes we relinquish, and what it means simply to \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e, to and for the ones we love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e North Atlantic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623177850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Chenxing Han","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42737816764597,"sku":"9781623177850","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ec9b488b-d69e-4919-8fcc-3efd28aa67cb.jpg?v=1676385648","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/one-long-listening-a-memoir-of-grief-friendship-and-spiritual-care-9781623177850","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}