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Charlotte writer JoAnna Blaine Easton named her memoir for her father's ancestral village: Mazraat el Toufah ( apple orchard ) in the mountains of Lebanon. 'I am his child, ' she writes of her second-generation-immigrant father, praising his 'amber-eyed vision that cradled me.' The seventh child born to this father and an Irish Catholic mother, Easton remembers her mother less fondly, as the woman who essentially abandoned her and her twin brother to nuns for their first three weeks of life. The experience of 'feeling unmothered' helped launch Easton on a 'life as a seeker, ' she writes. Her seeking has included studies of yoga and Jungian philosophy; travels in Europe, where Easton met Frau Engels, the spiritual mother or 'motherangel' who fostered her artistic instincts; and long-time involvement in the arts. Rather than narrate her life chronologically, Easton takes a circling, lyrical approach, following intuitive associations and interspersing her remembrances with her own poems and quotes from the thinkers she admires. It's the portrait of a woman whose seeking has borne fruit. -Margot Harrison, Seven Days Rejected by her mother as an infant, Easton could have chosen the familiar path to self-destruction. Instead, the memoir relates how Easton created a path that led to her true home. -Mel Huff, The Citizen

""Charlotte writer JoAnna Blaine Easton named her memoir for her father's ancestral village: Mazraat el Toufah (""apple orchard"") in the mountains of Lebanon. 'I am his child, ' she writes of her second-generation-immigrant father, praising his 'amber-eyed vision that cradled me.' The seventh child born to this father and an Irish Catholic mother, Easton remembers her mother less fondly, as the woman who essentially abandoned her and her twin brother to nuns for their first three weeks of life. The experience of 'feeling unmothered' helped launch Easton on a 'life as a seeker, ' she writes. Her seeking has included studies of yoga and Jungian philosophy; travels in Europe, where Easton met Frau Engels, the spiritual mother or 'motherangel' who fostered her artistic instincts; and long-time involvement in the arts. Rather than narrate her life chronologically, Easton takes a circling, lyrical approach, following intuitive associations and interspersing her remembrances with her own poems and quotes from the thinkers she admires. It's the portrait of a woman whose seeking has borne fruit. "" -Margot Harrison, Seven Days ""Rejected by her mother as an infant, Easton could have chosen the familiar path to self-destruction. Instead, the memoir relates how Easton created a path that led to her true home."" -Mel Huff, The Citizen

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