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The beloved author of A Wrinkle in Time needs an introspective take a look at her life and muses on creativity in this memoir, the first of her Crosswicks Journals. Every frequently I want OUT.... My special place is a small brook in a green glade, a group of quiet that there is no visible indication of human beings.... I remain there, dangling my thighs and looking through the foliage at the sky shown in the water, and things little by little keep coming back into point of view. Set against the lush backdrop of Crosswicks, her family's farmhouse in rural Connecticut, this deeply personal memoir details Madeleine L'Engle's quest to find balance between her job as a Newbery Medal-winning creator and her duties as a better half, mother, educator, and Christian. As she considers the assignments that ingenuity, family, citizenship, and faith play in her life, L'Engle reveals the complexities behind the author whose works - honored with the Country wide Book Prize, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Prize, and countless other prizes - have always been cherished by children and parents equally. Written in simple, serious, and often funny prose, A Group of Calm can be an insightful woman's elegant search for this is and purpose of her life.
