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  • Bright Precious Thing

  • A Memoir
  • By: Gail Caldwell
  • Narrated by: Gail Caldwell
  • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Bright Precious Thing

By: Gail Caldwell
Narrated by: Gail Caldwell
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Publisher's summary

From the New York Times bestselling author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home comes a moving memoir about how the women’s movement revolutionized and saved her life, from the 1960s to the Me Too era.

In a voice as candid as it is evocative, Gail Caldwell traces a path from her west Texas girlhood through her emergence as a young daredevil, then as a feminist—a journey that reflected seismic shifts in the culture itself. Caldwell’s travels took her to California and Mexico and dark country roads, and the dangers she encountered were rivaled only by the personal demons she faced. Bright Precious Thing is the captivating story of a woman’s odyssey, her search for adventure giving way to something more profound: the evolution of a writer and a woman, a struggle to embrace one’s life as a precious thing.

Told against a contrasting backdrop of the present day, including the author’s friendship with a young neighborhood girl, Bright Precious Thing unfolds with the same heart and narrative grace of Caldwell’s Let’s Take the Long Way Home, called “a lovely gift to readers” by The Washington Post. Bright Precious Thing is a book about finding, then protecting, what we cherish most.

©2020 Gail Caldwell (P)2020 Random House Audio
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Critic reviews

“Reading Caldwell is like sitting down over tea and cookies with a close friend, only to realize several hours later that together you've devoured the whole plateful and dinnertime has come and gone.”NPR

“Caldwell is a charming and affable writer, proud yet self-deprecating, thoughtful and witty. Her story, while often painful, is never didactic, preachy or judgmental. . . . God willing, she will write to us again.”—Star Tribune

“Caldwell’s writing, as always, is lush and lyrical, her honesty both captivating and refreshing, qualities that shine anew with a fierce and vibrant luminescence.”Booklist (starred review)

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Gail Caldwell is an inspired writer. This memoir spoke to my inner self and helped me feel far less alone in my experience. She is a masterful writer!

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This is an excellent book. I have read several of Gail Caldwell’s books and liked all of them. This is vey personal and beautiful.

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