| Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars Contributor(s): DeBlieu, Jan (Author) |
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ISBN: 159376121X ISBN-13: 9781593761219 Publisher: Counterpoint LLC OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: On the clearest nights, in the darkest rural areas, it's possible to see as many as 2,000 stars. On what kind of scaffolding are they hung? Every moment thousands of neurons fire in our brains, giving rise to our thoughts and emotions. Is it possible for us to map and understand the complex internal cosmos that makes us who we are? These two disparate questions became of immense importance to award-winning writer Jan DeBlieu in the spring of 1996, with the appearance of the Comet Hyakutake, the first of two great comets to visit Earth within a year. That spring, her husband, Jeff, began a long slide into a clinical depression. One night, unable to sleep, she stepped outside and found herself face-to-face with Hyakutake. Her encounter with Hyakutake sparked a desire to learn all she could about the stars, comets, and the makeup of the universe. Through her family's story, DeBlieu describes the pain of watching her husband suffer, as well as his healing-indeed, their healing as a couple. She brings the Year of the Comets full circle with the appearance of Hale-Bopp in 1997, which coincided with Jeff's recovery. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Self-help | Mood Disorders - Depression - Science | Astronomy - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 4.8" W x 8.66" (0.55 lbs) 208 pages |
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| Publisher Description: On the clearest nights in the darkest places you can see as many as two thousand stars. On what scaffolding are they hung? Jan DeBlieu began to wonder. Her husband had become enveloped in a depression of his own, and both he and DeBlieu were struggling to find points of light out of that darkness. DeBlieu discovers it in the sky above, a firmament of order and beauty that prompts her to consider the worlds inside our minds, the delicate framework of neurons and synapses that support our fragile selves. Year of the Comets is her record of the journey she and her husband take from pain to healing. |