Description
Part travel memoir, part spiritual pilgrimage, and part call to action, The Bond Between Women takes the reader to Nepal, India, Brazil, Argentina, and back to America to meet women-both mythological and real of fierce compassion. Their stories form the heart of this powerful narrative, into which Galland weaves strands of her own searing, personal journey. Exquisite recreations of ancient myths of goddesses from around the world thread through this story of the power of the bond between women.
Starting with the fall festival of the Hindu goddess Durga in Nepal, the Warrior Queen who saves the world when it is on the brink of destruction, Galland guides us seamlessly between the sacred and the everyday, from Buddhist and Christian teachings to the lives of women engaged in the liberating work of justice and healing.
In Nepal, a woman doctor tirelessly rescues children who have been sold to Indian brothels. In India, an inter-national women's campaign works to help clean the waters of the Ganges. In Brazil, a woman teaches street children in a makeshift school under a Rio freeway. In Argentina, the Mothers of the Disappeared bear witness against a government that stole the lives of their children.
In the United States, Mother Teresa's Sisters feed the homeless, and a Buddhist nun teaches peacemaking, forgiveness, and reconciliation. ISBN:9781573220880
