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Heartwood audiobook
- By: Barbara Becker
- Narrator: Gabra Zackman
- Category: Death & Dying, Social Science
- Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 11, 2021
- Language: English
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Heartwood Audiobook Summary
“We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love,” Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut memoir Heartwood.
When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die?
With a keen eye towards that which makes life worth living, interfaith minister, mom and perpetual seeker Barbara Becker recounts stories where life and death intersect in unexpected ways. She volunteers on a hospice floor, becomes an eager student of the many ways people find meaning at the end of life, and accompanies her parents in their final days.
Becker inspires listeners to live with the end in mind and proves that turning toward loss rather than away from it is the only true way to live life to its fullest. Just as with the heartwood of a tree–the central core that is no longer alive yet supports the newer growth rings–the dead become an enduring source of strength to the living.
With life-affirming prose, Becker helps us see that that grief is not a problem to be solved, but rather a sacred invitation–an opportunity to let go into something even greater…a love that will inform all the days of our lives.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
“Becker’s eloquence is a salve for confronting a difficult topic…This will be a comfort for anyone contemplating their own mortality, or those in search of advice for others. ” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Heartwood Audiobook Narrator
Gabra Zackman is the narrator of Heartwood audiobook that was written by Barbara Becker
Barbara Becker has dedicated more than twenty-five years to partnering with human-rights advocates around the world in pursuit of peace and interreligious understanding. She has worked with the United Nations, Human Rights First, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, and has participated in a delegation of Zen Peacemakers and Lakota elders in the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota. She is an ordained interfaith minister and has sat with hundreds of people as a hospice volunteer. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.
About the Author(s) of Heartwood
Barbara Becker is the author of Heartwood
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Heartwood Full Details
| Narrator | Gabra Zackman |
| Length | 4 hours 37 minutes |
| Author | Barbara Becker |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | May 11, 2021 |
| ISBN | 9781250791535 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Heartwood is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Death & Dying, Social Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Heartwood is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250791535.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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