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This is a profound and deeply felt collection of short stories, highly recommended for those who are looking for intelligence, insight, wit and wisdom. Especially in these days of postmodern flatness, art with depth is a rarity indeed. --Ken Wilber, author of The Integral Vision
Evoking the exciting, tragic and even seemingly ordinary memories of what it means to be human, Keith Martin-Smith sees into our collective lived experiences and grabs those little nuggets of life that, when flashed before us, remind us of both our delightful intricacy and noble frailty. -- --Robb Smith, CEO Integral Life
Keith Martin-Smith is a much-needed literary voice... --Paul Lonely, author of Suicide Dictionary
Evoking the exciting, tragic and even seemingly ordinary memories of what it means to be human, Keith Martin-Smith sees into our collective lived experiences and grabs those little nuggets of life that, when flashed before us, remind us of both our delightful intricacy and noble frailty. -- --Robb Smith, CEO Integral Life
Keith Martin-Smith is a much-needed literary voice... --Paul Lonely, author of Suicide Dictionary
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This collection visits everyday characters who, like us, are caught in the confusing and sometimes violent intersection of morality, war, religion, medical ethics, race, spiritual emergence, and for-profit Western culture. The title of this book comes from the art of reading tea leaves as divination or fortune-telling. One could think of these stories as acting as a kind of fortune-telling for where Western culture is heading as the 21st Century unfolds. Most of these stories occur in contemporary urban America; the people are the dispossessed middle class looking for meaning and purpose in a world that seems to have lost both; the themes are as evocative as the language love, brutality, tenderness, humor, forgiveness and redemption, death and rebirth. Written with skill and phenomenal attention to language, these are highly emotional stories that expose the grandeur and smallness of the human condition, the honour in the struggle to find meaning in our lives, and the potential for terror and salvation that exist in every life.
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