LIFE · STORY
Denice Turner
A bighearted memoir about the geology of love. About the unseen tensions that break our hearts and--if we ask them to--allow us be gracious.
Under her veil, she will bow her head and say yes, meaning it with her whole heart.
"Denice Turner's A Beginner's Guide to Faults is both a memoir of an extraordinary life and an unusual love story. It is a book about transformations, where each character you think you have pegged undergoes some alchemy, some phase shift, some quake of reality and becomes someone more nuanced and true. It's a masterful journey through Turner's inner landscape, terrain shaped by seismic forces of faith, love, desire, and joy."
--Chris Harris, author of I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart
“With the unflinching honesty and powerful emotion of Cheryl Strayed and Jeannette Walls, Denice Turner unwraps her family's legacies to find the story behind her mother's death and her own pain. Often angry, frequently tender and funny, Worthy is a beautifully written memoir about family, forgiveness, and hope."
--Eleanor Brown, New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters
“In her beautifully written memoir, Worthy, Denice Turner draws back the curtain and gives us a glimpse into the dominant forces in her world.... Each is fraught with unrealistic expectations of self-worth that will have readers shaking their heads in disbelief and laughing out loud."
--Enid Cokinos, Story Circle Book Reviews
After her mother dies in a suspicious house fire, Denice faces the ghosts of two suicidal uncles, a Mormon shrink who claims to see her dead relatives, and a grandfather whose up-from-the-bootstraps legacy refuses to die.
Early pilots grappled with weather and unwieldy machines. But they also grappled with poetics that kept most of them imaginatively tethered to the ground.
