A riveting memoir about a daughter\'s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine, and who started two big fires, decades apart.
Nina\'s writing skirts the mystical, untangles it, and ultimately illuminates it with brilliance..
This is a transfixing, moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship that also examines mental health, stigma, poverty, and gender--and the role that spirituality plays within each.
In Love Is a Burning Thing , Nina interrogates what happens to those undiagnosed and unseen.
With obsessive dedication, Nina began to knit together the truth that would eventually release her.
But after another fire, and a tragic fallout, she was forced to confront the shadow side of her mother\'s mystical narratives.
When they finally settled at the foot of a mountain--reputed to be cosmic--in Northern California, Nina hoped life would stabilize.
Growing up, Nina longed for a normal life; instead, she and her brother were at the whims of their mother, who chased ascension up and down the state of California, swapping out spiritual practices as often as apartments.
From that day on, her mother\'s pain became intertwined with the pursuit of enlightenment.
During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation.
Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt.
A riveting memoir about a daughter\'s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine, and who started two big fires, decades apart
