Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir

A powerful memoir from Natalie Golderg--the woman who changed the way writing is taught in this country--sharing her experience with cancer grounded in her practice of writing and Zen.

When longtime Zen practitioner and world-renowned writing teacher Natalie Goldberg learns that she has a life-threatening illness, she is plunged into the challenging realm of hospitals, physicians, unfamiliar medical treatments, and the intense reality of her own impermanence. In navigating this foreign landscape, Natalie illuminates a pathway through illness that is grounded in the fierce commitment to embrace the suffering directly. In the middle of this, her partner discovers that she too has cancer. The cancer twins, as Natalie calls them, must together and apart grapple with survival, love, and the rawness of human connection. This book is a moving meditation on living a genuine life in full bloom.

• The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
• Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
• The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life
• Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing
• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
• The Truth of This Life: Zen Teachings on Loving the World as It Is
• The Great Failure: My Unexpected Path to Truth (Insight: The Spirit Behind The Words)
• Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
• Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
• Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet