Love Is Blind in One Eye
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In these linked stories Jewel navigates the stage of life between 25 and 45, from the day she finds a body on a wild California beach to crossroads encounters with mystics, lovers, beggars, surgeons, and sailors on the shores of Maui and streets of San Miguel de Allende, Lisbon, Larkspur, Mill Valley, and Barcelona. Falling in love, whether with the one she marries, her newborn babies, total strangers, or the places she goes, calls forth conflicting sensations: ease/excitement, pleasure/danger, attachment/release. One eye sees and the other is blind as Jewel learns to love and grieve by staying in motion, finding and losing her way in the crowds and landscapes, heart cracked open.
Marianne Rogoff
Marianne Rogoff is the author of the memoir Silvie’s Life (Zenobia Press, Berkeley, 1995; Gradiva, Lisbon, 2006), which has been adopted for courses in medical ethics and optioned for film. Travelers Tales has selected her stories for The Best Women’s Travel Writing (2011, 2010, 2008) and The Best Travel Writing (2006). Her feature essays and book reviews have appeared in The Rumpus, San Francisco Chronicle, and Bloomsbury Review, among others. She teaches Writing & Literature at California College of the Arts and Big History at Dominican University, and leads annual weeklong trips for writers to Mexico, Spain, and elsewhere. Read more at mariannerogoff.com
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Love Is Blind in One Eye - Marianne Rogoff
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©2016 by Marianne Rogoff
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Table of Contents
Copyright
Table of Contents
Praise for Marianne Rogoff
Dedication
Introduction
Firewalking
Someplace Else
Emporio Rulli
Raven
Love Is Blind in One Eye
Alive in Lisbon
12 Hours in Barcelona
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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Praise for Marianne Rogoff
I loved reading these seven stories and spending time with Jewel. A curious, bold, sensual, and tender young woman, she pursues her adventures in Maui, Mexico, Marin, Lisbon, and Barcelona with light, sure steps.
– Molly Giles, Author of The Spokane Prize story collection All the Wrong Places and The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction collection Rough
This is one beautiful book. I loved and devoured it—like candy, like medicine. Rogoff had me by the throat and the heart from first page to last. These extraordinary stories will stay with me for a very long time. What a gorgeous, devastating, liberating collection. Just perfect.
– Lavinia Spalding, Author of Writing Away and Editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing
Marianne’s compelling yet simply told stories gently take our hand and lead us through moments of tragedy and daily triumph that could easily be our own as parents, as travelers, and as friends, and ultimately reveal the indelible strength of character and vulnerability that make us all human beings.
– Kimberley Lovato, Travel Journalist and Author of Walnut Wine & Truffle Groves
Rogoff’s writing is rife with an emotional acuity that is riveting; carved out of a fierce knowing of what it is to navigate – and survive – life on life’s terms. Deliciously poignant, the stories collected here are both raw and sophisticated, masterfully woven to reveal how one forges ahead with resilience and grace while on the precipice of a vast chasm of grief. An astounding, beautiful work.
– Bridget Crocker, Outdoor Travel Writer/Blogger: adventuresoflittlemama.com
Dedication
To my son
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You’re on your own, and you know what you know.
And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.
– Dr. Seuss
Introduction
This linked collection is part truth, part fiction. I personally did not walk on fire or find a body on a beach but a co-worker I knew did both, and as I wrote her story it felt like my own; I began to identify with the woman walking, with Jewel’s desire to confront her fears then to let them go, into the fire.
Jewel is an alter ego, a second self, a trusted friend, the opposite side of a personality.
Travel offers a chance to try on new versions of yourself that you put on when you arrive and leave behind as you depart. Coming home, you reassess who you thought you were before you left and who you really are, or want to be. But this kind of internal shift can erupt anywhere, even at home, as you explore foreign emotions, or recognize what is extraordinary and always mysterious about everyday life wherever you are.
Here, Jewel navigates the stage of life between 25 and 45, from the day she finds a body on a wild California beach to crossroads encounters with mystics, lovers, beggars, surgeons, and sailors on the shores of Maui and streets of San Miguel de Allende, Lisbon, Larkspur, Mill Valley, and Barcelona. Falling in love, whether with the one she marries, her newborn babies, total strangers, or the places she goes, calls forth conflicting sensations: ease/excitement, pleasure/danger, attachment/release.
One eye sees and the other is blind as Jewel learns to love and grieve