A Stone Bridge North: Reflections in a New Life

A Stone Bridge North: Reflections in a New Life
by Kate Maloy

A Stone Bridge North: Reflections in a New Life
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Author: Kate Maloy
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-01
ISBN: 1582431450
Number of pages: 313
Publisher: Counterpoint Press

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Book Review: inspirations as well as reflections
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm another reader of this book who is not a Quaker, nor do I play one on TV. That said, I was fascinated and moved by Ms. Maloy's memoir spanning 10 very significant months in her life. For readers contemplating any major life change, this book provides both inspiration and wisdom.

Summary of A Stone Bridge North: Reflections in a New Life

A middle-aged woman with a teenage son rediscovers her Quaker faith, and quits her urban life for a homestead in the woods of Vermont.

"I lived a straight-edged life, a cubist arrangement of familiar rectangles: office, computer screen, paycheck, city blocks, mortgage, calendar pages, television screen. These were more confining than I knew. Most confining of all, for most of those years, was the four-square house I occupied like a resentful ghost through half my marriage...I am no longer a ghost in my life." --from the Prologue

A Stone Bridge North is the author's own story of "miracles found and fears allayed" in the journey out of a confining urban existence and into a simpler, more joyous life. To tell this story fully, she must look through changed eyes at her past-at childhood anxieties, family disaffections, failed marriages, late motherhood, restless boredom, and, paradoxically, a native talent for joy. She learns that she has been guided by faith even when she thought she had none. She begins to discern purpose and design both in her stories and in the light by which she sees them-a light refracted through a Quaker lens that searches for the sacred in all people. As the four seasons turn, she celebrates the loves of her new life-family, friends, language, silence, and the extraordinary landscape of Vermont.

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