Through Hazel Eyes
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Stacy Bowen has endured a bumpy road in her thirty-eight years. In this memoir, she recounts some pivotal moments experienced and the people involved who helped to form the woman she is today.
From family crises to freedom of the open road, Bowen recalls a host of memories: coping with a difficult childhood, enduring the loss of family members, recognizing the ties that bind families together (or tear them apart), and navigating the complex process of self-discovery. The child of a single parent, she describes the shame of being labeled as lower class and her internal struggles with self-esteem. With intimate and painful details, she shares the medical event that nearly ruined her and narrates her experience as an organ donor and her subsequent involvement with that community.
Themes of perseverance and strength form the foundation for the stories in Through Hazel Eyes, conveying pain, acceptance, exploration, death, learning, and growth.
Customer Reviews
Through Hazel Eyes
This was a very pleasant read. The writer took me on her personal life experiences with just enough detail to allow me to share in her adventure.
What I enjoyed most were the accounts of her travels on the road across the country. I enjoy traveling, too, so this was a means for me travel vicariously through her.
Her accounts of growing up, family experiences - both bitter and sweet, unexpected turns in the road all allowed me to reflect on my own life's journey.
Through Hazel Eyes is a hard book to put down. I wanted to relish and savor each chapter. Although I was able to spread it over a week of comfortable end of the day readings.
Enjoyed it and highly recommend it.