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When her youngest son left home, Ann Martin Ridings felt the world shift. After raising five boys and the sacred daily rituals of care that goes with-noise, mess, smell, years of school, ER visits-as well as poignant conversations and growing milestones-she found herself lying on the couch amid crumbs, memories, and a sudden quiet. ""A Woven Woman"" is a lyrical, hybrid memoir composed in a distinct style-a stream of diary, poem, essay and observation-held together by emotional and psychological through-lines rather than chronology. Introducing concepts like Saudade, Anamnesis, Phronesis, and Wabi Sabi, she uncovers motherhood, childhood, artistic identity, ancestral traces, and the hidden cartographies of a woman's life. Tender, perceptive, and beautifully wrought, A Woven Woman reminds us that the stories we live-and the stories we revisit-give us the insight and tools to understand our woven selves; and from that understanding, we may weave a new life, choosing the warp and weft of our realized selves.

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