Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation

by Mirabai Starr

Book Overview

On the day her first book came out--a new translation of Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross--Mirabai Starr's daughter, Jenny, was killed in a car accident. "My spiritual life began the day my daughter died," writes Mirabai. Even with decades of spiritual practice and a deep immersion in the greatest mystical texts, she found herself utterly unprepared for "my most powerful catalyst for transformation, my fiercest and most compassionate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1622034139
• ISBN13: 9781622034130
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Sounds True
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Caravan of No Despair helped me more than any oher book I have read during my grief journey.

Autobiographical, this story is woven around and through the coming of age, of Mirabai Starr. Her childhood is not the usual white picket fence story. Her parents are vagabonds of a sort. I deplore the word Hippie and prefer free spirit. It is not all singing and dancing and play. Her struggles are our struggles. I came to know her as a friend through this book of her life, divorce of her parents, loss of her child and finding peace in the end. It is a spiritual journey of learniong, loving, losing, forgiveness and completion.