{"product_id":"mothership-a-memoir-of-wonder-and-crisis-paperback","title":"Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGreg Wrenn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling, evidence-based account of one man's quest to heal from complex PTSD by turning to endangered coral reefs and psychedelic plants after traditional therapies failed--and his awakening to the need for us to heal the planet as well.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProfessor Greg Wrenn likes to tell his nature-writing students, \"The ecological is personal, and the personal is ecological.\" What he's never told them is how he's lived out those correspondences to heal from childhood abuse at the hands of his mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Weaving together memoir and cutting-edge science, \u003ci\u003eMothership\u003c\/i\u003e is not just a queer coming-of-age story. It's a deeply researched account of how coral reefs and a psychedelic tea called ayahuasca helped Greg heal from complex PTSD--a disorder of trust, which makes the very act of bonding with someone else panic-inducing. From the tide pools in Florida where he grew up, to Indonesia's Raja Ampat archipelago and the Amazon rainforest, this is his search for wholeness when talk therapy and pharmaceuticals did little to help. Along the way, as his ecological conscience wakes up, he takes readers underwater to the last pristine reefs on earth, and into the psyche. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with prophetic urgency, \u003ci\u003eMothership\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately asks if doses of nature will be enough to save us before it's too late.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, Greg Wrenn is the author of \u003ci\u003eCentaur\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich National Book Award-winning poet Terrance Hayes awarded the Brittingham Prize in Poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Greg's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, Al Jazeera\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus, Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Iowa Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. He has received awards and fellowships from the James Merrill House, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Poetry Society of America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As an associate English professor, Greg teaches environmental literature and creative writing at James Madison University, where he weaves climate change science into literary studies. He was educated at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Greg is a trained yoga teacher and a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, exploring coral reefs around the world for over twenty-five years. He lives in the mountains of Virginia with his husband and their growing family of trees.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.21 x 5.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748859511072,"sku":"9798888452141","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a50f4ad09191807b393c28b1215ef4f4.webp?v=1779918403","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mothership-a-memoir-of-wonder-and-crisis-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}