Orenda Fink The Witch’s Daughter recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van het boek en memoir van de Amerikaanse zangeres en songwriter. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Gallery Books het autobiografische boek van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige singer songwriter Orenda Fink. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de memoir is niet verkrijgbaar.

Orenda Fink The Witch’s Daughter recensie en review

• “A story of power, family, and struggle, [The Witch’s Daughter] is a captivating look at growing up in the shadow of a dominant, unstable parent…. With rich imagery, thoughtful reflections, and compelling prose, Fink’s memoir will resonate with readers of Tara Westover’s Educated.” (Booklist)
• “Riveting…Equal parts cutting and compassionate, this tale of hard-won peace will resonate with readers wrestling with their own complicated families.” (Publhsers Weekly)

The Witch’s Daughter

My Mother, Her Magic, and the Madness that Bound Us

• Auteur: Orenda Fink (Verenigde Staten)
• Soort boek: memoir, muziekboek
• Taal: Engels
• Uitgever: Gallery Books
• Verschijnt: 6 augustus 2024
• Omvang: 304 pagina’s
• Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
• Prijs; $ 28,99 / $ 14,99
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de memoir van de Amerikaanse singer songwriter Orenda Fink

Acclaimed indie musician and songwriter Orenda Fink delivers a lyrical and moving memoir of a tumultuous childhood with a mother who battled mental illness and addiction.

From her perch on a kitchen stool each night, Orenda Fink’s darkly charismatic mother spins family lore and tells tales of the supernatural powers she wields, insisting that both she and Orenda are magic. By day, Orenda’s childhood is marked by instability and uncertainty. Her family moves from town to town, chasing a fresh start whenever the money runs out. Orenda’s mother insists that she is a witch, and magic is their means of protection from the world outside of their family. Orenda encounters her mother’s magic in all its forms: a crisp $20 bill materializes from nothing when money has run out and a bottle of congealed blood lurks in the closet for unspoken reasons.

When her mother’s substance abuse and controlling behavior crescendo, Orenda escapes to pursue a music career in Birmingham, Alabama, and then storied Athens, Georgia, forming bands Little Red Rocket and Azure Ray. She orbits the family home, always drawn back by her mother’s dark powers and her own need to solve the mystery of whether that claim of magic—or any magic—is real, or merely an expression of mental illness. Orenda’s journey takes her from churches in the American South—eager to exercise the demons out of her—to even more mysterious practitioners of country magic in the Southeast and beyond.

Finally seeking refuge in California’s high desert, Orenda works to knit together her divided worlds with the help of a Jungian psychotherapist. She is stunned to learn that her mother fits many of the criteria associated with borderline personality disorder, including a sub-type identified by famed thought leader Christine Ann Lawson, known as “The Witch”—an aggressive, dominating figure who operates by fear-driven control, sometimes claiming to wield magic.

Told in spellbinding prose, this memoir of music, self-discovery, and compassion is for anyone who has had to conjure a safe place to call home.

Orenda Fink i(18 september 1975, Birmingham, Alabama) s a musician, songwriter, performer, and writer whose work has been profiled in by NPR, Pitchfork, and more. She has been writing, recording, and touring for critically acclaimed records since 1997. Orenda got her start in Birmingham, Alabama, with the pop rock group Little Red Rocket. In 2000, she formed the lauded ethereal folk duo Azure Ray with longtime friend Maria Taylor in Athens, Georgia. Azure Ray has cowritten with Moby and collaborated with Bright Eyes, Sparklehorse, and the Faint, among many others, with their music regularly featured in film and television programs. The Witch’s Daughter is her first book. She is originally from Alabama, and now resides in California’s Mojave Desert with her husband, Todd Fink of The Faint, and their dog, Grimm. The experiences described in this book prompted Orenda to become a certified Jungian Depth Coach with a specialization in shadow work and dream interpretation. Find out more at OrendaFink.com.

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