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An elegant yet muscular memoir, artistic in shape and beautiful in delivery. --Geeta Sharma-Jensen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Beautifully written, and wise, this book manages to be both tragic and funny, a combination hard to wrangle. --Diane Ackerman, author of One Hundred Names for Love Blending the spiritual and the profane, Feraca is beguiling. --Publishers Weekly If the great poet Federico Garcia Lorca had heard Jean Feraca on the radio, he might have said her voice had duende, a dark mysterious bravura power. Now Jean Feraca infuses her brave magic into a series of remarkable, unpredictable--and wickedly funny--essays about life, loss, family, marriage, and the radio. Always intense, always startlingly perceptive . . . Feraca explores the essential attachments of a life with a passionate courage that tears off defenses and leaves the woman as she is: the naked teller of tales desperately true. --Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden

<p> Beautifully written, and wise, this book manages to be both tragic and funny, a combination hard to wrangle. --Diane Ackerman, author of An Alchemy of Mind

<p> If the great poet Federico Garcia Lorca had heard Jean Feraca on the radio, he might have said her voice had duende , a dark mysterious bravura power. Now Jean Feraca infuses her brave magic into a series of remarkable, unpredictable--and wickedly funny--essays about life, loss, family, marriage, and the radio. Always intense, always startlingly perceptive . . . Feraca explores the essential attachments of a life with a passionate courage that tears off defenses and leaves the woman as she is: the naked teller of tales desperately true. --Molly Peacock, author of The Paper Garden<br>

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Jean Feraca, Wisconsin Public Radio's Distinguished Senior Broadcaster, is host and executive producer of Here on Earth: Radio without Borders. She won an Ohio State and Gabriel Award for her Women of Spirit radio series on female leaders in the early Christian Church, and the National Telemedia Council's Distinguished Media Award for her radio advocacy of people with mental illness, and the 2011 Gabriel Award for Inside Islam, ""Muslims, Mosques, and American Identity."" A resident of Madison, Wisconsin, she is author of three collections of poetry: South from Rome: Il Mezzogiorno, Crossing the Great Divide, and Rendered into Paradise. Jean was the recipient of the Nation's Discovery Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a two-time finalist for the Pushcart Prize and a National Poetry Foundation Prize. I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio, was selected as the 2011 winner of the Kingery/Derleth Book-Length Nonfiction Award, sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers. It was also named an Outstanding Book by the American Association of School Librarians, and one of the year's Best Books for General Audiences by the Public Library Association.

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