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02705aam a2200361 i 4500 001 34618E421A3011EEAF9CB4AD47ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230704010055 008 220805t20232023miu b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2022037774 020 $a 0802882498 020 $a 9780802882493 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1376342145 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BKL $d YDX $d BDX $d LNT $d RFT $d OCLCF $d CLE $d UOK $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV5293.W39 $b A3 2023 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20230417 100 1 $a West, John, $d 1986- $e author. 245 10 $a Lessons and carols : $b a meditation on recovery / $c John West. 260 $a Grand Rapids, Michigan : $b William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, $c 2023. 300 $a vii, 199 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Maybe redemption is not a place you find, but a system of mapmaking. Sketch a land. Pencil in dragons. 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. 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. Each December, a faithful circle of irreligious friends assembles to eat and sing and re-imagine an old story about love made flesh. In that gathering's glow, resentments turn to quiet wonder at the ways a better world can appear.Both tender and bracing, West's poetic meditation of the possibilities of change will resonate deeply with anyone who has tired of their own destructive loops. In this stirring account of recovery, redemption remains elusive-and also a promise as tangible as a newborn.Hardscrabble winter, gray and lonely, requires Christmas. Or, rather, in its depths, I require Christmas: words no longer cold, chrome, and barren, but alive, golden, cradled in my arms"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a West, John, $d 1986- 650 0 $a Alcoholics $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a People with mental disabilities $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Christmas music $v Texts. 650 0 $a Carols $v Texts. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230704012334.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=34618E421A3011EEAF9CB4AD47ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search