{"product_id":"9780874807875","title":"Grace Notes: The Waking of a Woman's Voice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Ever since I was 10 years old, I’d felt myself yearning to 'go astray.' For me, that didn’t mean drinking and cavorting with boys; it meant being myself without fear.\"—from the book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when a trained singer who grew up in a \"house of vowels\" finds that her voice is not her own? What happens when a woman loses the Mormon faith of her childhood and abandons the rituals she’s always known? What does a woman, already married for thirteen years by her early thirties, do when she realizes she has been \"lying for years?\" How does one sing, with grace, from the heart?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of Mary Catherine Bateson’s \u003ci\u003eComposing a Life \u003c\/i\u003eand Kathleen Norris’s \u003ci\u003eCloister Walk\u003c\/i\u003e, Heidi Hart’s luminous memoir retraces her search for an opening to her heart’s path. She finds that the religious life of her Latter-day Saint family—which includes a revered General Authority—robs her of her voice and her spirit. When she discovers Catharine, a mute, Quaker ancestor, Hart begins a vital journey—a journey blessed by her devout and devoted husband; a journey that leads her as she studies Zuni mythology, Jewish tradition, Benedictine monastic ritual, Emily Dickinson, and Saint Hildegard of Bingen—a journey that leads her to a place that feels like home: the company of Friends, the Quaker community of Salt Lake City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith grace and lyricism, Hart shares the private, personal wisdom she has earned in her community of friends, a community that embraces silences and dissonance, a place where she can't keep from singing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Utah Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018986340592,"sku":"9780874807875","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780874807875_p0.jpg?v=1763853843","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780874807875","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}