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The Trail to Tincup
Love Stories at Life’s End
by Joyce Lynette Hocker
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Pub Date
May 15 2018
| Archive Date
May 08 2018
Description
In The Trail to Tincup: Love Stories at Life’s End, a psychologist reckons with the loss of four family members within a span of two years. Hocker works backward into the lives of these people and forward into the values, perspective, and qualities they bestowed before and after leaving. Following the trail to their common gravesite in Tincup, Colorado, she remembers and recounts decisive stories and delves into artifacts, journals, and her own dreams. In the process the grip of grief begins to lessen, death braids its way into life, and life informs the losses with abiding connections. Gradually, she begins to find herself capable of imagining life without her sister and best friend. Toward the end of the book Hocker’s own near-death experience illuminates how familiarity with her individual mortality helps her live with joy, confidence, and openness.
In The Trail to Tincup: Love Stories at Life’s End, a psychologist reckons with the loss of four family members within a span of two years. Hocker works backward into the lives of these people and...
Description
In The Trail to Tincup: Love Stories at Life’s End, a psychologist reckons with the loss of four family members within a span of two years. Hocker works backward into the lives of these people and forward into the values, perspective, and qualities they bestowed before and after leaving. Following the trail to their common gravesite in Tincup, Colorado, she remembers and recounts decisive stories and delves into artifacts, journals, and her own dreams. In the process the grip of grief begins to lessen, death braids its way into life, and life informs the losses with abiding connections. Gradually, she begins to find herself capable of imagining life without her sister and best friend. Toward the end of the book Hocker’s own near-death experience illuminates how familiarity with her individual mortality helps her live with joy, confidence, and openness.
Advance Praise
In The Trail to Tincup, Joyce Lynnette Hocker reckons with the loss of multiple family members but shows how love measures the height and depth of grief. She tells a remarkable tale of self-recovery in which lives end but are resurrected through memory and the process of writing. For anyone struggling with loss and the love that binds us to those we cherished, The Trail to Tincup places signposts along the path, shows how to bear both the beams of love and loss, and suggests ways that the distinction between life and death may be less absolute than we think. This is a well-crafted book written by a fine writer who has plumbed the depths of her own story.
—Thomas Frentz, Trickster in Tweed
In The Trail to Tincup, Joyce Lynnette Hocker reckons with the loss of multiple family members but shows how love measures the height and depth of grief. She tells a remarkable tale of self-recovery...
Advance Praise
In The Trail to Tincup, Joyce Lynnette Hocker reckons with the loss of multiple family members but shows how love measures the height and depth of grief. She tells a remarkable tale of self-recovery in which lives end but are resurrected through memory and the process of writing. For anyone struggling with loss and the love that binds us to those we cherished, The Trail to Tincup places signposts along the path, shows how to bear both the beams of love and loss, and suggests ways that the distinction between life and death may be less absolute than we think. This is a well-crafted book written by a fine writer who has plumbed the depths of her own story.
—Thomas Frentz, Trickster in Tweed
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781631523410 |
| PRICE |
$17.95 (USD)
|
| PAGES |
256
|
Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781631523410 |
| PRICE |
$17.95 (USD)
|
| PAGES |
256
|
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