Literary Publications
In My Bones
In My Bones
In My Bones
When passionate young Susan meets Leon, she falls hard. An older, charismatic artist, he's unlike anyone she's ever known. One unplanned pregnancy later, and she's the single parent of an interracial son in the deeply divided society of 1970s St. Louis.
Fleeing to Boston to join Leon, she falls into a head-spinning world of drugs and art, where he is at the center, and her own identity is slipping away. True love brings tragedy, loss and struggle, with near-death experiences that challenge her sanity and survival.
Susan's story is a map through the territory of mystical experience and everyday life. Her struggle to define herself as a creative woman will take her to Nepal and Tibet, and into the true meaning of love.
Along the way, she asks the perpetual questions, "Who am I and what is my purpose?"
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Art Refugee
In My Bones
In My Bones
From 2005-2006, Stirling Davenport landed a volunteer job in Dharamsala, in northern India. Living in the town where the Dalai Lama resides enabled her to do art therapy with Tibetan refugee children and interview fascinating people in the exile community.
Simultaneously learning to play the Tibetan instrument, the dranyen, while filming interviews for a film, she spent nearly eleven months in India, traveling between McLeod Ganj, New Delhi and Mumbai.
The surprises and insights she gained along the way provide an entertaining and intriguing narrative, illustrated with Stirling's photographs, sketches and paintings.
Follow an unusual observer of life pursuing her dream.
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