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AN ENGROSSING JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY AND FIERCE DEVOTION

An intense and accomplished memoir . . . This sweet, erotic, wrenching story asks quintessential questions about memory, the constructed self, and love its challenges and deep compensations. --Priscilla Long, author of The Writer s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life An incredibly intimate and honest memoir, Wondering Who You Are shows more vividly than any work of nonfiction I ve read in years the endlessly complex and delicate nature of identity. In particular, the book movingly reveals how mutable all relationships are, how metamorphosis on one side of a partnership necessitates metamorphosis on the other we are all constantly changing. --Peter Mountford, author of The Dismal Science Sonya Lea s Wondering Who You Are is an extraordinary story. A wrenching, deeply honest exploration of love and identity that made me question my ideas about memory, about gender, about marriage and family and faith. About the whole human rigmarole. Her story does what the best stories do: it made me think about life in an entirely new way. --Suzanne Morrison, author of Yoga Bitch, One Woman s Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on the Path to Enlightenment Sonya Lea tells her extraordinary story extraordinarily well. She has a rare ability to bring readers to the places where love and sex intermingle, collide, or go their separate ways. Wondering Who Your Are is an amazing accomplishment. Every page sparkles with wisdom, candor, insight, and love. --Chris Ryan - Author of Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships WITH POETIC PROSE AND REMARKABLE CANDOR, LEA SHARES THE DETAILS OF HELPING HER HUSBAND REGAIN A SENSE OF PURPOSE...AND HER OWN DIFFICULT TRANSITION HER STUNNING ACCOUNT OF HIS RECOVERY EFFORTS AND HER WILLFUL REFUSAL TO GIVE UP ON MARRIAGE TO THE STRANGER OCCUPYING HER HUSBAND S BODY IS FANTASTICALLY HEARTFELT AND INSPIRING. An intense and accomplished memoir An incredibly intimate and honest memoir This meditation on love and loss left me filled with wonder Wondering Who Your Are is an amazing accomplishment. Every page sparkles with wisdom, candor, insight, and love. --Chris Ryan - Author of Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships Wondering Who You Are a quietly wrenching memoir that s as much about what makes any of us who we are as it is about Lea s own story. AN ENGROSSING JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY AND FIERCE DEVOTION With poetic prose and remarkable candor, lea shares the details of helping her husband regain a sense of purpose...and her own difficult transition. An engrossing journey of self-discovery and fierce devotion. Wondering Who You Area quietly wrenching memoir that s as much about what makes any of us who we are as it is about Lea s own story. Wondering Who Your Areis an amazing accomplishment. Every page sparkles with wisdom, candor, insight, and love. --Chris Ryan - Author of Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships A beautiful writer Her stunning account of his recovery efforts and her willful refusal to give up on marriage to the stranger occupying her husband's body is fantastically heartfelt and inspiring. [A] heartbreakingly honest memoir . . . will touch listeners with its compassion and grace. --Booklist, STARRED A beautiful writer... Wondering Who Your Are is an amazing accomplishment. Every page sparkles with wisdom, candor, insight, and love. --Chris Ryan - Author of Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships Wondering Who You Are a quietly wrenching memoir that's as much about what makes any of us who we are as it is about Lea's own story. Wondering Who Your Areis an amazing accomplishment. Every page sparkles with wisdom, candor, insight, and love. --Chris Ryan - Author of Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships Wondering Who You Area quietly wrenching memoir that s as much about what makes any of us who we are as it is about Lea s own story. In this brave, inspiring memoir she recounts the losses, and what it took to rebuild. In this brave, inspiring memoir she recounts the losses, and what it took to rebuild. IN THIS BRAVE, INSPIRING MEMOIR SHE RECOUNTS THE LOSSES, AND WHAT IT TOOK TO REBUILD.

Sonya Lea tells her extraordinary story extraordinarily well. She has a rare ability to bring readers to the places where love and sex intermingle, collide, or go their separate ways. Wondering Who Your Are is an amazing accomplishment. Every page sparkles with wisdom, candor, insight, and love. --Chris Ryan - Author of Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

An intense and accomplished memoir This meditation on love and loss left me filled with wonder An incredibly intimate and honest memoir With poetic prose and remarkable candor, lea shares the details of helping her husband regain a sense of purpose...and her own difficult transition. An engrossing journey of self-discovery and fierce devotion. [A] heartbreakingly honest memoir . . . will touch listeners with its compassion and grace. --Booklist, STARRED A beautiful writer... Her stunning account of his recovery efforts and her willful refusal to give up on marriage to the stranger occupying her husband's body is fantastically heartfelt and inspiring.

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Sonya Lea's essays and interviews have appeared in Salon, The Southern Review, Brevity, Cold Mountain Review, Tricycle, The Prentice Hall College Reader, and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and excerpts from Wondering Who You Are have received an international memoir prize and an Artist Trust Award. Lea teaches writing at Hugo House in Seattle, and she's leading a pilot project to teach writing to women veterans through Tom Skerrit's Red Badge Project. She recently directed her first short film, Every Beautiful Thing, which will play in festivals in spring 2015. Originally from Kentucky, she currently lives in Seattle, Washington. Find her at www.sonyalea.net

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