Earth: 1 (Elemental Journey) - Softcover

Allen, Caroline Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997582480 ISBN 13: 9780997582482

Publisher: Art of Storytelling, 2024

Synopsis

Winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers' Gold Medal for Best Midwest Fiction. In rural Missouri in the 1970s, thirteen-year-old Pearl Swinton has just had her first mystical vision. There is no place for Pearl's "gift" in the bloody reality of subsistence farming and rural poverty. As her visions unfold, she must find her way in a family and a community that react with fear and violence. When Pearl discovers that her Aunt Nadine has a similar gift, she bicycles across the state to find her. That trip unexpectedly throws Pearl into a journey to save her runaway sister and sends her into a deep exploration of herself, her visions, and her visceral relationship to the earth. Told with fierce lyricism, Earth is a story about the importance of finding one's own truth and sense of self in dire circumstances and against the odds. It is also a story about the link between understanding ourselves and our relationship with the earth. In this first of the five-book Elemental Journey Series that will follow Pearl across continents and into adulthood, Caroline Allen introduces a form of storytelling that is unflinching in its honesty, filled with compassion, and underscored with originality. Includes a thought-provoking Book Group Guide.

About this title

About the Author

Caroline Allen worked as an international journalist in newsrooms in Tokyo and London, and as a travel writer across S.E. Asia. She is now a book coach for people all over the world. Besides being a novelist, she is also a visual artist, and works on her books and her art in a yurt in the woods in Oregon. www.carolineallen.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Art of Storytelling
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997582480
• ISBN 13: 9780997582482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274