The author recounts her efforts to become a member of the suburban Boston neighborhood where she moved to raise a family, introducing readers to the extraordinary individuals who taught her the meaning of community life in modern America.

A Home in the Heart of a City: A Woman's Search for Community

Politics & Social Sciences

Hirsch, Kathleen

Social Sciences

North Point Pr

Songs from the Alley

Hirsch writes a startling account of life on the streets. Wendy and Amanda both came from the suburbs, both had dreams of lasting love and security. But befoer age 30, both women were homeless.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Poetic and provocative, a challenge to women to create more spiritually rich and balanced lives.A successful writer and a committed feminist, Kathleen Hirsch, at age forty, finds herself searching for something more. How, she asks, can women's lives be more spiritually alive and whole? Can we reclaim in our most productive years what we sacrificed to earlier ideas of success? What is the place of silence and creativity in our busy lives?
Unable to trek to Tibet or retreat to a cabin in the woods, she enters a season of reflection in the midst of her everyday life. A career crisis, the sudden death of a brother, and the birth of her son, all in a year's time, deepen her probing. Hirsch examines the role of women's friendships and the definition of worthwhile work. Her inner pilgrimage gradually moves her to seek out a range of remarkable women who are consciously trying to live in balance. They lead her to bold conclusions that will inspire many women who are seeking realistic ways to live more multidimensional lives.Beautifully written, A Sabbath Life will serve as A Gift from the Sea for the twenty-first century.

A Sabbath Life: One Woman's Search for Wholeness

Religion & Spirituality

NORTH POINT PRESS

Anchor

For every city dweller seeking richness and connection in contemporary urban life. 
When Kathleen Hirsch first moved to Jamaica Plain, an unassuming neighborhood in Boston, she was looking for a place to belong, to set down roots. Was it possible, she wondered, to find community in a contemporary city? A Home in the Heart of a City is Hirsch's exuberant and hopeful response. We follow her as she meets extraordinary individuals, including the protector of a local park, an urban gardener, and a corporate lawyer turned community advocate. They become her guides, showing that living well in community is as much about the personal choices we make to work, play, and associate in certain ways as it is about the grassroots institutions we build to foster community life.

A Home in the Heart of a City

Sociology

A successful writer and committed feminist's search for spiritual wholeness after a career crisis, the sudden death of her brother, and the birth of her son moves her to seek out a range of remarkable women who are consciously tryng to live in balance.

A Sabbath Life: A Woman's Search for Wholeness

The story of two women who set out to realize their dreams and end up without homes or a means of escaping their poverty paints a vivid portrait of life on the streets, the social services, and shelters

Ticknor & Fields

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Books by Hirsch, Kathleen

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A Home in the Heart of a City: A Woman's Search for Community

Songs from the Alley

A Sabbath Life: One Woman's Search for Wholeness

Songs from the Alley

A Home in the Heart of a City

A Sabbath Life: A Woman's Search for Wholeness

Songs from the Alley