Author: Christine Hale
Publisher: Apprentice House
Date of publication: July 2016
Christine Hale grew up amid abuse, depression, dysfunction,
alienation and isolation—her mother’s, but also, because her view was the lens
that controlled the family—her own, her father’s and her two sisters’. She
became a writer, a prodigal daughter, a single parent, a Buddhist disciple,
and, late in midlife, a newlywed. In this non-linear memoir, she meditates upon
the broken path she’s traveled: two divorces, an abandoned career, too much
solitude, an unconventional and transformative relationship with a female
spiritual teacher, and two children lost to young adulthood but recovered, in
part, through an odd ritual of repeated tattooing.
“Christine Hale’s A Piece of Sky, A Grain of Rice is
an exquisite engagement with those tough human questions that must be asked
even if they can never be answered. Hale writes toward acceptance, every page
brimming with honesty, insight, and deep understanding. A truly beautiful
meditation in lovely, lively prose.”~ Dinty W. Moore, author of The
Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life
About Christine Hale
Christine Hale’s prose has appeared in Hippocampus,
Arts & Letters, Prime Number, Shadowgraph, and The Sun, among
other literary journals. Her debut novel Basil’s Dream(Livingston
Press 2009) received honorable mention in the 2010 Library of Virginia Literary
Awards. Hale has been a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for
New Writers and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Presently, she
teaches in the Antioch University-Los Angeles Low-Residency MFA Program as well
as the Great Smokies Writing Program. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
Connect with Christine at her Website.
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Christine Hale’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:
Monday, August 1st: A
Lovely Bookshelf on the Wall
Tuesday, August 2nd: Savvy
Verse and Wit – author guest post
Wednesday, August 3rd: Readaholic
Zone
Thursday, August 4th: Run
Wright
Tuesday, August 9th: Patricia’s
Wisdom
Thursday, August 11th: Dreaming
Big – author Q&A
Monday, August 15th: Back
Porchevations
Wednesday, August 17th: Beck
List
Thursday, August 18th: Write
Read Life
Friday, August 19th: Ms.
Nose in a Book
Monday, August 22nd: Bibliophiliac
Friday, August 26th: A
Book A Week – author guest post
Monday, August 29th: All
Roads Lead to the Kitchen
TBD: From
the TBR Pile
tlc
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