Easter Everywhere

by Darcey Steinke

Book Overview

"I became riveted by Steinke's tone, a steady, lovely, hallowed, patient, things-in-themselves hum... Easter Everywhere is] a delicately wrought little volume...This is a beautiful book." -- New York... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596911387
• ISBN13: 9781596911383
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Poetry in motion

This was a beautifully-written memoir about growing up as a minister's daughter. The author paints a vivid picture of what it was like to move from place to place, live with a mother who suffered from depression, all the while searching for spiritual meaning in her life. It's very honest and frank, yet has a poetic quality to it. Whether you are a devout Christian or struggling with your faith, I think everyone will find something to relate to in this memoir.

A gift to our troubled world

Exquisite prose, heartfelt storytelling and not a false note in the book. Steinke addresses issues that are too often ignored in our polarized culture.

Marvelous memoir

Steinke avoids the pitfalls in many a modern memoir. She deftly jumps from one stage of her life to the next, without the necessity of providing a continuous and detailed account. This leaves a spaciousness to the book, which gives it more weight than one might expect from a relatively short life story. Her writing style is delightful, with many a choice phrase. The threads through the book are her troubled parents and a longing for meaning in her life, one which she finds in a spiritual life that is anything but the neat and certain religion of so many believers. The later sections involving her explorations of religion are particularly compelling.

Faith and Doubt

Easter Everywhere is an unusual memoir---a beautifully-written exploration of the connections between faith and doubt. Especially at a time when zealots and fundamentalists have the loudest public voice on religion, it's a relief to read Steinke as she frankly probes her own belief, not with cliched pieties, but with a fierce search for God, with all the struggles and uneasiness that entails. The writing is so vivid and compelling, this book will move readers (especially perhaps those with spotty church histories, or no religious background at all) to consider their own faith or lack of it. Steinke's story is startling, poignant, and revelatory.

finally, a memoir about religion I can identify with

I was feeling very down when I picked up this memoir and reading it gave me some respite and new insight into what is often labelled depression--but what this author suggests might actual be spiritual longing. Without being zealous, Steinke wrestles on the page in very spare, moderate prose with her struggle to come to terms with her questions about spirituality, instilled in her as a child by her father, a Lutheran minister, with a need for a different kind of spirituality as an adult. I would love to read more by this writer about her ongoing attempts to find spirituality in her life.