Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery West John
Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery West John Maybe redemption is not a place you find, but a system of mapmaking. Pencil in dragons. Sketch a land. As a new parent, West grapples with his…
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Lessons and Carols: A Meditation on Recovery West John
Maybe redemption is not a place you find, but a system of mapmaking. Pencil in dragons. Sketch a land.
As a new parent, West grapples with his own fragmented recovery and grief for the friends he lost to addiction, asking if anyone can really change, or if we are always bound to repeat the past.Echoing the form of a traditional Anglican Christmas service of stories and songs, West's lyrical prose invites readers into an unorthodox rendition of the liturgy called Lessons and Carols. Imagine it real, resplendent, and broken under a waxing moon.Lessons and Carols is a genre-bending memoir that explores the aftershocks of alcoholism and mental illness through a fresh look at the powers of poetry, ritual, and community. Each December, a faithful circle of irreligious friends assembles to eat and sing and reimagine an old story about love made flesh. In that