Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart

by Deborah Santana

Book Overview

Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana-a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345471253
• ISBN13: 9780345471253
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: One World
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart

I was so impressed with the book I bought copies for all my sisters and mother. We all loved the book and my 81 year old mother reads reads regency romance novels exclusively. A miracle ocurred and she read this book and didn't want to put it down! We all loved it. The book gave us courage and opened our hearts. THANKS Deborah. Sincerely, Karen Gravina Hull, Massachusetts

Seeing Stars and the People That Love Them

What a wonderfully, powerful love story filled with spiritual transformation. The Sanatana's 35 year relationship is an unusual chronicle or friendship, love,family, and loyalty. I could not put it down; from the first page I was hooked! It filled my Sunday afternoon with such unexpected joy and elation... it has made me look at mo own relationship with an artist very, very differently. Now I can see with eyes of unconditional love and non-judgement and compassion and most of all... understanding.

Richly Courageous, Generous Work, Rooted In Love

I just completed Space Between the Stars. When I closed the book there was a sense of a winding epic poem coming to a gracefully profound close. Deborah Santana's memoirs sing with the spirit of Earth, Wind, Air and Fire. The book reads much like a novel and I had to remind myself that it was a recounting of many lives through the eyes, heart and soul of one. Santana is a masterful storyteller/illuminator, bringing beloved [powerful] family members to life, bringing Carlos to life in ways I felt blessed to witness. It is clear that Deborah Santana honors all her relationships, even through painful experiences, as she extracts the nectar and finds peace within herself to transcend the rest. She makes evident that the Journey of her Life includes everyone and everything she's come to experience, and that there is Beauty in all of it. I'm honored to be privy to Deborah Santana's world, those she holds dear, and the gift of her fine writing. Space Between the Stars is a healing, vibrant and wonderful testament to Living with an open heart, and to the joy that comes with expressing it. Thank You Deborah Santana. You are a divine Light. Bead

what memories!

Rebeccasreads highly recommends SPACE BETWEEN THE STARS as an extraordinarily elegant, often plangent & frequently lambent memoir that illuminates the feminine side of the last half of the 20th Century & the racism in an era when race relationships were on a cusp, & the children of biracial couples were vilified. From defying parents to loss of innocence & abortions to college & a new love - the great guitarist Carlos Santana. Together they become disciples to a guru & his religious movement. This is an important aspect of that era: when gurus, of all stripes, came out of India, drawing to themselves eager & naive searchers for the way to godliness. They brought their own brands of mind-control, dominance & rewards, all exotically wrapped up in 100% devotion, pure living through meditation, community activism & evangelizing. Deborah Santana brilliantly describes the euphoria, the magical attraction of someone so revered, & the gladsome sense of belonging & achievement. She also bluntly records the descent from favored disciples into disillusionment, excommunication & separation. On into the world of Carlos Santana, his family, his music & their marriage. When they decide to start a family, Deborah Santana's memories are bright with ardor, insights & a growing maturity. & then, the evil of infidelity sneaks in, & more lessons are to be learnt. SPACE BETWEEN THE STARS is engrossing, evocative & memorable.

A Powerful Memoir

This is an intimate, revealing, highly readable memoir of an exciting, unusual, and deeply examined life. Deborah Santana's beautifully written book allows the reader to accompany her on a heady trip through San Francisco in the 1960's and 70's, as she takes us on a backstage tour complete with sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. But this is much more than a hip jaunt though the wild worlds of music and celebrity. It is also a journey through times of social, political and personal upheaval and awakening. It is a story of coming of age that is filled with romance and motherhood, mysticism and business, loneliness and family, fear and strength. Her honest, heartfelt, and often funny account can also be a source of inspiration and solace due to her remarkable honesty and her ability to overcome prejudice, insecurity, abuse, heartbreak, and loss. Ultimately it is the triumphant tale of a courageous woman who has experienced pain and privilege, hardship and success and faced them all with real sincerity, humility, spirituality, and, most of all, love. Deborah Santana is a powerful, eloquent writer who uses words like prisms through which we can learn to see the world, and ourselves, in new ways.