{"id":320,"date":"2021-10-29T15:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/?page_id=320"},"modified":"2022-04-19T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T21:14:15","slug":"the-deep-limitless-air-a-memoir-in-pieces","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/?page_id=320","title":{"rendered":"The Deep Limitless Air,\u00a0A Memoir in Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Mary Allen&#8217;s effortlessly original voice addresses the reader with startling simplicity and moral clarity, whether she is introducing us to the tender friendship between a young woman and a celebrated octogenarian, or allowing us to see through her eyes the beautiful solemnity of monks at their devotions, or tracing her own strange citizenship in the liminal realm of a disrupted childhood and the years that follow.&nbsp;&nbsp;Simply put, read this book.&nbsp;&nbsp;Allen&#8217;s beguiling and brilliant writing will leave you exhilarated.<\/p><cite>\u2014 Jo Ann Beard, author of Festival Days<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Among the reasons I love&nbsp;<em>The Deep Limitless Air&nbsp;<\/em>is that its spirituality is so light-handed and matter-of-fact and barely distinguishable from the apprehension and appreciation of ordinary life, life both lived and recalled. Mary Allen writes about growing up with a rejecting mother, of lovers, partners, and friends, and a procession of animals who summon her tender and respectful attention, of learning to bear the long silence of meditation and the joyful shout of the world. A beautiful, funny, warm, and heartbreaking book.&nbsp;<\/p><cite>Peter Trachtenberg, author of Another Insane Devotion, On the Love of Cats and Persons<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A memoir in pieces, this book is subtitled, and I say what life isn\u2019t in pieces?\u00a0 A snarl of honeybees in a parcel at the post office evokes a mother\u2019s long-ago rage; a medical insurance crisis precedes a sister giving birth; past\u00a0loves and an old man who was kind; Boston, Iowa City, Hawaii, speculations of the afterlife.\u00a0\u00a0<em>The Deep Limitless Air<\/em>\u00a0tells a life of successive revelation, evolving wisdom.\u00a0 Its prose has the freshness of the most optimistic morning.\u00a0 I adore this book.<\/p><cite>Honor Moore, author of Our Revolution, A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Allen&#8217;s effortlessly original voice addresses the reader with startling simplicity and moral clarity, whether she is introducing us to the tender friendship between a young woman and a celebrated octogenarian, or allowing us to see through her eyes the beautiful solemnity of monks at their devotions, or tracing her own strange citizenship in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/?page_id=320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Deep Limitless Air,\u00a0A Memoir in Pieces<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-320","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/320\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryallenwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}