Broken: A Love Story
by Lisa Jones
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"Broken" entwines the story of writer Lisa Jones with that of quadriplegic healer Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho on the Wind River Indian Reservation, while also exploring powerful spirits, material poverty, spiritual wealth, friendship, violence, confusion, death, and above all else,"a love that comes before and after and above and below romantic love."Tags
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An incredible and difficult story that bring to life broken people and cultures, horses to be broken, people's spirituality held tight, broken open and bound up again. An intricate story of class and race, illness and healing, deep loss and hope. Highly recommended.
Parts of the story were enjoyable - descriptions of life in an around Stan's, the paraplegic medicine man, orbit. I got a bit annoyed by her flakiness. The cruelty to animals where intentional or just out of stupidity was disturbing.
Once I realized the book was truly about the author's journey and not about Stan Addison, I really liked it.
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- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 070.92 — Computer science, information & general works News media, journalism & publishing Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing Biography And History Biographies
- LCC
- PN4874 .J656 .A3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Journalism. The periodical press, etc. By region or country
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- Reviews
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- Rating
- (3.56)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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- 5
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