Straight from the Horsley's Mouth.
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Author(s)Michelle Horsley
PublisherAmpersand Books
ISBN / ASIN1304328295
ISBN-139781304328298
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Sales Rank4,574,266
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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"You know, when you think back on it, it's really just absolutely ridiculous." Those were my father's words a few months ago when we were reminiscing on the phone about times gone by. As a family, we're never done anything by the book. From street performing as children to moving across the world in search of adventure, it has been a wild and wonderful ride. Our travels have taken us to faraway and enchanted lands of cathedrals and aqueducts, basilicas and mariachis, zip-lining and volcanoes, camel rides, cider houses, and so many things in between. Music has been a driving force, consistently opening up doors of unpredictable possibilities from epic collaborations of pipe organs and synthesizers, unconventional Broadway accompaniments, Mexican chant choirs, jazz bands overseas, to spontaneous encounters with organists in small European villages. We've had both lasting childhood friendships and meaningful connections with people along the road. Putting these stories into words certainly does not do them justice, but I'd like to hope that it's second best. As a family, we've never done anything by the book. Instead, we've written our own. “Between these covers rests a moving tale, of love and family and music and the ineffable but endlessly fruitful ties that can bind us one to another. The Horsley family is here to cheerfully report that Tolstoy was wrong: some happy families are all alike, and some are happy like no other.†-Virginia Woolf, author of A Room of One’s Own and Orlando“In such strange laboratories genius is made†– Nikola Tesla “Is this the life lived, this book? Or just a pale artifact? Is the performance the music, or the notes on the paper? What is life, and why? This author may not have the answers, but she certainly has some very good ideas.†–Albert Camus, author of The Stranger“If this family awoke one morning as strange creatures, they would all be butterflies.†–Gregor Samsa