Driving by Moonlight A Journey Through Love, War, and Infertility

by Henderson, Kristin

• ISBN13: 9781580050982
• ISBN10: 1580050980
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-29
• Publisher: Seal Press

Summary

When Kristin Henderson's husband, a Lutheran chaplain, ships out with the Marines to Afghanistan after 9/11, Henderson struggles to reconcile her Quaker belief in pacifism with her strong feelings about the smoking rubble in her hometown of Washington, D.C. Together with her German shepherd, Rosie, Henderson sets off in an old Corvette on a cross-country journey through America's byways, exploring a changed country and her own altered emotional landscape. Hoping for answers, Henderson finds peace instead, and learns the freedom that comes with letting go. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Kristin Henderson is a resident of Washington, D.C., where her essays are featured regularly in the Washington Post. Henderson is a former Bread Loaf scholar whose short fiction has been nominated for a Pusheart Prize

Table of Contents

Shipping Out	p. 1
If Religions Were Cars	p. 15
The Father He Hated	p. 33
The Illusion of Control	p. 53
Friendly Ways	p. 69
Bathrooms and Life's Other Unnecessary Layers	p. 95
Finding God in a Snowstorm	p. 115
Semper Gumby	p. 131
In a Blink I'll Be Gone	p. 145
This Road Sucks	p. 163
Jesus Likes Me	p. 189
A Roll of the Dice	p. 209
Howdy, Neighbor	p. 225
Alien Nation	p. 245
Death and Texas	p. 259
Psychic Powers	p. 271
The Road to Dog Zen	p. 279
Joy Ride	p. 297
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