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An acclaimed poet's "gripping" memoir of an accidental tragedy, a childhood haunted by guilt, and a quest to find healing through art (Publishers Weekly).
When Gregory Orr was twelve years old, he shot and killed his brother in a hunting accident. From the immediate aftermatha period of shock, sadness, and isolationit quickly became clear that support and guidance would not be coming from his distant mother. Nor would it come from his father, a philandering country doctor addicted to amphetamines. Left to his own devices, the boy suffered.
Guilt weighed on him throughout a childhood split between the rural Hudson Valley and jungles of Haiti. As a young man, his feelings and a growing sense of idealism prompted him to activism in the civil rights movement, where he marched and was imprisoned, and then scarred again by a terrifying abduction. Eventually, Orr's experiences led him to understand that art, particularly poetry, could work as a powerful source of healing and meaning to combat the trauma he carried.
Throughout The Blessing, Orr articulates his journey in language as lyrical as it is authentic, gifting us all with a singular tale of survival, and of the transformation of suffering into art.
"Even a chaotic and hapless family, it seems, can confer a blessingthe strength to live in the world as it is, and the wisdom to love people as they are. The book is not so much about surviving pain so much as developing a writer's instinct for transforming it." Kathleen Norris, New York Timesbestselling author of The Cloister Walk
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