Regi Carpenter

Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner (eBook, ePUB)

Stories of a Seared Childhood

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A candid story of desperate measures, explosive humor, and,ultimately, the sanity behind seeming madness.It teaches a newunderstanding of family love." -Jo Radner, reviewer for the National Storytelling Network'smagazine Family: comfort food or a recipe for disaster? Award-winning storyteller and performer Regi Carpenter brings her humor and honesty to print in Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner. Regi is the youngest daughter in a family that pulsates with contradictions: religious and raucous, tender but terrible, unfortunate yet irrepressible. These honest tales-some hilarious, some heartbreaking-celebrate the glorious and gut-wrenching lives of four generations of Carpenters raised on the Saint Lawrence River in Clayton, New York. From teenagers struggling to find their identity to disabled veterans grappling with the aftermath of war and change to the complications and sweetness of love between family members, this collection of linked short stories holds the universal message that life's difficulties are softened by love and fortitude . . . and family. "Inventive, insightful, emotionally nuanced in the midst of deadpan humor; but more than that, here is a great, big-hearted embrace of the world." -Loren Niemi, producer, Two Chairs Telling "This book brings us to a place where we discover the eventual and abiding power of love over death. It is so very loving and affirming of total recovery from childhood and of the power of forgiveness that heals in two directions." -Donald Davis, author of Tales from a Free-Range Childhood

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Familius
• Seitenzahl: 183
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781944822231
• Artikelnr.: 56682639

Autorenporträt

Regi Carpenter is a solo performance artist, writer, teacher, and performance coach. An award-winning performer, Regi has toured her solo shows and workshops in theaters, festivals, and schools both nationally and internationally. Her writings and blogs about storytelling, ancestry, and identity have been published in various print and online publications. Regi holds a BFA from Ithaca College where she currently teaches storytelling.

Regi is the recipient of the JJ Reneaux Emerging Artist Award, a Leonard Bernstein Teaching Fellowship Award, the Parent'sChoice Gold Award, the Parents'sGuide to Children'sMedia Award, and the Storytelling World Award. Her performance piece "Snap!"won the 2012 Boston StorySlam. "Snap!"is a featured listen story on The Moth website. In addition, she recently raised the funds from fans across the country to make a CD and DVD of "Snap!" Along with her work as a performer, coach, and writer, Regi is also the founder of Stories with Spirit, a creative initiative dedicated to bringing songs of joy and stories of hope to grieving children and the people who love and care for them in homes, hospices, and hospitals. Her high school storytelling curriculum, "Teens Talking" has been awarded grants from the New York State Council of the Arts. She lives in Ithaca, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

The Lucky Caul
Scars are Tattoos with Better Stories, or How I Became a Carpenter
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Self Defense, or How Librarians Are Making the World a Safer Place
Matter Rearranged
One Man’s Trash
Love Is War
Bendable Barbie
Dead Man’s Float
Flames of Jesus
The Piano, or The Lord Works in Mysterious Ways; Mothers Do Not
Snap!
She’s Climbing the Stairway to Heaven
Me, Moses, and the Dog
I Love You; Will You Bury Me?
Diving and Emerging