The New YorkTimes bestselling author of Up in the Air and Blood Will Out embarks on a journey that begins with the death of his beloved mother-and ends in an inexplicable spiritual awakening.
After the utter grief of taking his mother off life support, Walter Kirn is compelled to understand his recurring visions of a Native American holy site. With his children and girlfriend, he follows them. In opening himself up to the mysticism he sees in religion, music, and nature, Walter discovers something magical and transcendent: solidarity and solace in the world around him.
Walter Kirn's The Stones, the Crows, the Grass, the Moon is part of Missing, a collection of six true stories about finding, restoring, or accepting the losses that define our lives-from the mysterious to the inspiring. Each story can be read-or listened to-in a single sitting.
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[About an hour before I got the call informing me that my mother was in a coma after undergoing emergency surgery for a ruptured abscess in her brain, a picture popped into my head, a kind of vision]***
(AmazonOriginal Stories, 31 July 2018, ebook, 31 pages, Prime Reading)
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This is my first time reading the author. I really enjoyed The Stones, the Crows, the Grass, the Moon. I found the story fascinating, as the tragedy of the death of Walter's mother leads to a mystical awakening that changes his life. This could easily have been a silly story, one to mock and roll your eyes at. Kirn writes his story so well in beautiful, sparse language. His journey begins before his mother's death with a recurring dream about a spiritual place. It's not until after she passes away that he decides to find the place and discover what calls him to it. I thoroughly enjoyed this little tale.
