{"product_id":"book-gmbl","title":"one long listening","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Edge of Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCrying in H-Mart\u003c\/i\u003e--a profound and searching memoir of life, loss, grief, and renewal from one of American Buddhism’s most vital new voices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow do we grieve our losses? How can we care for our spirits? \u003ci\u003eone long listening\u003c\/i\u003e offers enduring companionship to all who ask these searing, timeless questions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImmigrant daughter, novice chaplain, bereaved friend: author Chenxing Han (\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBe the Refuge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e) takes us on a pilgrimage through the wilds of grief and laughter, pain and impermanence, reconnecting us to both the heartache and inexplicable brightness of being human.\u003cbr\u003eEddying around three autumns of Han’s life, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eone long listening\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e journeys from a mountaintop monastery in Taiwan to West Coast oncology wards, from oceanside Ireland to riverfront Phnom Penh. Through letters to a dying friend, bedside chaplaincy visits, and memories of a migratory childhood, Han's startling, searching memoir cuts a singular portrait of a spiritual caregiver in training.\u003cbr\u003eJust as we touch the depths, bracing for resolution, Han’s swift, multilingual prose sweeps us back to unknowingness: 不知最親切. \u003ci\u003eNot knowing is most intimate\u003c\/i\u003e. Chinese mothers, hillside graves. A dreamed olive tree, a lost Siberian crane. The music of scripts and silence. These shards--bright, broken, giddy, aching--are mirrors to our own lives in joy and sorrow.\u003cbr\u003eA testament to enduring connection by a fresh and urgent new literary voice, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eone long listening\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e asks fearlessly into the stories we inhabit, the hopes we relinquish, and what it means simply to \u003ci\u003ebe\u003c\/i\u003e, to and for the ones we love.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49323209392432,"sku":"BDgmbl","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/361983-gmbl-Square.jpg?v=1733505328","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gmbl","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}