Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir
A riveting memoir about a daughter's investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine, and who started two big fires, decades apart.
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Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation.*From that day on, her mother's pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment.*
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Growing up, Nina longed for a normal life; instead, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother, who chased ascension up and down the state of California, swapping out spiritual*practices as often as apartments. When they finally settled at the foot of a mountain-reputed to be cosmic-in Northern California, Nina hoped life*would stabilize. But after another fire, and a tragic fallout, she was forced to confront the shadow side of her mother's mystical*narratives. With obsessive dedication, Nina began to knit together the truth that would eventually release her.
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In Love Is a Burning Thing, Nina interrogates what happens to those undiagnosed and unseen. This is a transfixing, moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that also examines mental health, stigma, poverty, and gender-and the role that spirituality plays within each. Nina's writing skirts the mystical, untangles it, and ultimately illuminates it with brilliance.
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Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation.*From that day on, her mother's pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment.*
*
Growing up, Nina longed for a normal life; instead, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother, who chased ascension up and down the state of California, swapping out spiritual*practices as often as apartments. When they finally settled at the foot of a mountain-reputed to be cosmic-in Northern California, Nina hoped life*would stabilize. But after another fire, and a tragic fallout, she was forced to confront the shadow side of her mother's mystical*narratives. With obsessive dedication, Nina began to knit together the truth that would eventually release her.
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In Love Is a Burning Thing, Nina interrogates what happens to those undiagnosed and unseen. This is a transfixing, moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that also examines mental health, stigma, poverty, and gender-and the role that spirituality plays within each. Nina's writing skirts the mystical, untangles it, and ultimately illuminates it with brilliance.
Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir
A riveting memoir about a daughter's investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine, and who started two big fires, decades apart.
*
Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation.*From that day on, her mother's pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment.*
*
Growing up, Nina longed for a normal life; instead, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother, who chased ascension up and down the state of California, swapping out spiritual*practices as often as apartments. When they finally settled at the foot of a mountain-reputed to be cosmic-in Northern California, Nina hoped life*would stabilize. But after another fire, and a tragic fallout, she was forced to confront the shadow side of her mother's mystical*narratives. With obsessive dedication, Nina began to knit together the truth that would eventually release her.
*
In Love Is a Burning Thing, Nina interrogates what happens to those undiagnosed and unseen. This is a transfixing, moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that also examines mental health, stigma, poverty, and gender-and the role that spirituality plays within each. Nina's writing skirts the mystical, untangles it, and ultimately illuminates it with brilliance.
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Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation.*From that day on, her mother's pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment.*
*
Growing up, Nina longed for a normal life; instead, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother, who chased ascension up and down the state of California, swapping out spiritual*practices as often as apartments. When they finally settled at the foot of a mountain-reputed to be cosmic-in Northern California, Nina hoped life*would stabilize. But after another fire, and a tragic fallout, she was forced to confront the shadow side of her mother's mystical*narratives. With obsessive dedication, Nina began to knit together the truth that would eventually release her.
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In Love Is a Burning Thing, Nina interrogates what happens to those undiagnosed and unseen. This is a transfixing, moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that also examines mental health, stigma, poverty, and gender-and the role that spirituality plays within each. Nina's writing skirts the mystical, untangles it, and ultimately illuminates it with brilliance.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940159634047 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Publication date: | 05/07/2024 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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