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Author: Claire Hoffman
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint: Collins
Dimensions:
Width: 13.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9780062338853
ISBN 10: 0062338854
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 06 June 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A clear-eyed critique that generously accounts for humanity's 'profoundly sincere and motivated' quest for happiness and peace. --Kirkus Reviews In both a compelling memoir and a valuable testament, Claire Hoffman tells of the struggle to find her own path to truth while growing up amid the distractions and contradictions of a guru's prescribed utopia. Her triumph, and the reminder for us all, is in excusing the external guru and trusting the guide within. --Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize -winning author of The Looming Tower [A] wise, funny, and fascinating book. --San Francisco Chronicle As fascinating and unsettling as discovering a magical Oz in the middle of Kansas, Hoffman's unflinching memoir presents a remarkable landscape unlike any we're familiar with, one in which its narrator navigates her troubled way through a youth colored utterly by the cultlike atmosphere in which she finds herself. Dark, powerful, and ultimately uplifting, Greetings from Utopia Park is a book to be pondered and savored. --Val Brelinski, author of The Girl Who Slept with God Claire Hoffman brilliantly captures a world that is at once familiar and exotic, yet it is more than that. It is about the meaning of faith in the modern world and how the simple desire for spiritual connection can sometimes lead to devastating consequences. I love it. --Reza Aslan, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Zealot With honesty and sincerity, this account of coming of age within the ostensible confines of an alternative lifestyle delivers valuable knowledge of another phenomenon of cultural divergence. --Library Journal Wonderfully intimate: a cautionary tale that develops into one of inspiring self-determination. --Booklist
In both a compelling memoir and a valuable testament, Claire Hoffman tells of the struggle to find her own path to truth while growing up amid the distractions and contradictions of a guru s prescribed utopia. Her triumph, and the reminder for us all, is in excusing the external guru and trusting the guide within. --<b>Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize -winning author of <i>The Looming Tower</i></b>
Wonderfully intimate: a cautionary tale that develops into one of inspiring self-determination. --<b>Booklist</b>
Author Information
Claire Hoffman writes for national magazines and holds a master's degree in religion from the University of Chicago and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She was a staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. She serves on the board of her family foundation, the Goldhirsh Foundation, as well as ProPublica and the Columbia School of Journalism. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
