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“It doesn’t matter what the goal of a pilgrimage is--the waters of the Ganges or the black stone of Mecca, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher or the Wailing Wall,” writes Joan Weimer. “It doesn’t matter if you set out because you have faith or because you don’t. You set out on a quest and amazing things happen.” Joan has no intention of making a pilgrimage until a hurricane threatens to tear the wings off her plane, and she feels invisible hands holding her safe in a radiant blackness of astonishing beauty and power. Read more

About Joan Weimer

Joan Weimer’s memoir Back Talk: Teaching Lost Selves to Speak was published by Random House and brought out in paperback by the University of Chicago Press. The book won a star from Kirkus Reviews as a “powerful, inspiring memoir written with humor, insight, and a gripping gift for detail.” With playwright Paullette MacDougal, Weimer adapted Back Talk into a play which critics found “fierce and funny,” “superbly and subtly crafted...a richly satisfying intellectual and emotional experience.” Read more

Excerpt from the Book