Seeking Rapture: Scenes from a Woman's Life - Softcover

"Seeking Rapture is the biography of a hungry heart. . . . Affecting, beautifully crafted autobiographical meditations."
--The Boston Globe

"Revealing . . . [Harrison] has produced enthralling essays that bring to mind the robust metaphysics of Kathleen Norris and Patricia Hampl. Kathryn Harrison has challenged herself--and won--with her passionate, rigorous thinking on family bonds and family bondage, and the mysterious intersections of body and spirit."
--The New York Times Book Review

"[A] rich collection . . . Harrison aims, over the distance of time and often with dazzling accuracy, for unflinching display of motivations. . . . Such fastidious recall is a Proustian gift. With all due regard for her achievement as a novelist, Harrison appears Proust-like in another respect: She is her own truest subject, an unending wellspring of emotion and restless quest."
--Los Angeles Times

"Harrison remains a master of her craft, with musings that are lyrical, insightful, and haunting."
--Entertainment Weekly

"It's her fierce devotion to her absent mother that gives this book its shimmering grace."
--Organic Style

"Poignant glimpses into the life of a survivor."
--Kirkus Reviews

"The prose sings....Harrison [is] at her thoughtful, provocative best, mindful of the flaws and desires within everyone."
--Publishers Weekly

In a provocative memoir, the best-selling author of The Seal Wife re-creates episodes from her life as a child, wife, mother, and writer, examining the ways in which childhood experiences recur as memories that can be transformed and sometimes healed in adult life. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.