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03476aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 B507603E323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 200521t20202020oru 000 0aeng d 010 $a 2020935326 020 $a 9780982783856 020 $a 098278385X 035 $a (OCoLC)1155070736 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d GK8 $d CLE $d ZVR $d CNEDM $d YU6 $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d J9U $d UKMGB $d NYP $d NUI $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3552.I58 $b Z46 2020 082 04 $a 811/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Biespiel, David, $d 1964- $e author. $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96094765 245 12 $a A place of exodus : $b home, memory, and Texas / $c David Biespiel. 264 1 $a Portland, Oregon : $b Kelson Books, $c [2020] 300 $a 190 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "Acclaimed poet and essayist David Biespiel tells the story of the rise and fall of his Jewish boyhood in Texas, and his search for the answer to his life's central riddle: Are we ever done leaving home? Raised in the 1970s in Meyerland, the historic Jewish neighborhood of Houston, Biespiel explores the story of triumph and shame that changed his relationship to the world around him. With cinematic fluidity, he writes of his early years as a teenager who yearns for bold self-invention as he grapples with the enigmas of illness, death, love, and the meaning of faith. Growing up in a family devoted to Jewish identity, Biespiel comes under the tutelage of the head rabbi of the largest conservative congregation in North America. But after the rabbi kicks him out of the synagogue during a public quarrel, Biespiel leaves Texas and his religious upbringing behind. After a near-forty-year exile, Biespiel returns for a day to the world he left behind as a different person, to offer a moving meditation on the meaning of home, uncovering bittersweet realities of age, youth, and family with tenderness and devastating honesty. Written in the years that followed the devastation of Houston wrought by three 500-year floods in three years-including Hurricane Harvey, the worst flood in Texas history-Biespiel's account is by turns personal and philosophical, a meditation on time's inevitable losses and a writer's hard-won gains. A Place of Exodus is not only a memoir, but an essential companion for anyone who has journeyed far - and equally those who have stayed close to the unresolvable paradoxes of home, the aches of time and heart none of us can escape" 600 10 $a Biespiel, David, $d 1964- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96094765 600 17 $a Biespiel, David, $d 1964- $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1990352 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1990352 650 0 $a Poets $v Biography. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106648 650 7 $a Poets. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919894 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919894 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026047 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 nli 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022117.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B507603E323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search