Seeking Rapture Scenes from a Woman's Life

by HARRISON, KATHRYN

• ISBN13: 9780812972054
• ISBN10: 0812972058
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Summary

ANEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOK In this exquisite book of personal reflections on a woman's life as a child, wife, and mother, Kathryn Harrison, "a writer of extraordinary gifts" (Tobias Wolff), recalls episodes in her life, exploring how the experiences of childhood recur in memory, to be transformed and sometimes healed through the lives we lead as adults. At the heart ofSeeking Raptureis the notion that a woman's journey is a continuous process of transformation, an ongoing transcendence and re-creation of self.

Author Biography

Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels The Seal Wife, The Binding Chair, Poison, Exposure, and Thicker Than Water. She has also written a memoir, The Kiss. Her personal essays, including some from the collection Seeking Rapture, have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s magazine, and other publications. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children. She can be reached at [e-mail].<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>

Table of Contents

The Children's Room	3	(12)
Home for the Holidays	15	(6)
Interior Castles I	21	(14)
Seeking Rapture	35	(16)
Interior Castles II	51	(18)
Keeping Time	69	(18)
Tick
Siva's Daughters	87	(2)
Minor Surgeries	89	(14)
Beach Trip	103	(4)
The Supermarket Detective	107	(6)
A Pilgrimage to Saks Fifth Avenue	113	(10)
Renewal	123	(10)
What Remains	133	(218)
Nitpickers	351
Labor	175	(10)
Mothers Day Card	185	(2)
Acknowledgments	187