The Crack Between The Worlds

Description: ACar Crashes, And Maggie Kast, At The Peak Of AModern Dance Career, Loses AThreeyearold DaughterRaised Without Religion And Now Mired In Grief, She Senses APersistent Connection To The Little Girl, ALove Somehow More Powerful Than The Brute Fact Of DeathThis Awareness Leads Her, Over Three Years, To The Catholic ChurchAfter The Accident, Her Marriage Is Greatly Stressed By The Entrance Of Religion Into Married Life, And She And Her Husband Each Accuse The Other Of Being Too Religious Or Too Secular At Various TimesDespite Conflict, Dialogue Keeps The Marriage Intimate And VitalFollowing Study Of Liturgy At Catholic Theological Union, She Teaches And Tours Sacred Dance Nationally And Internationally, Exploring The Arts As ASpiritual PathMoving Forward And Looking Back At Once, She Discovers Early Hints Of Religious Experience In Childhood Celebrations, Encounters With Art, And MarriageHer Husband DiesNow ASingle Parent Of ATenyearold And ADevelopmentally Disabled Teenager, As Well As Collegeaged Sons, She Continues Her SearchEndorsements: ''in Prose That Is Spare, Lucid, And Elegiac, Maggie Kast's Memoir, The Crack Between The Worlds, Tells The Story Of APilgrimage And AConversionADancer And Choreographer, Kast Knows That The Most Expressive Gesturesand Wordsare Often The Simplest, Rooted In The Dailiness Of Our LivesHer Search For AFaith That Can Embrace Both The Tragic Sense Of Life And The Ecstatic Sacramentality Of Ordinary Matter Leads Her Inexorably To The Church Whose Name Means 'universal.' Readers Will Find In Kast's Particular Story Something Universal, Moving, And True.'' gregory Wolfe, Editor, Image ''maggie Kast's Memoir Is ARich, Powerful, Affecting Story Of How Even In Tragedy Grace Can Be FoundShe Has Written ABook That Will Be AConsolation And Resource For Many.'' ron Hansen, Author Of Mariette In Ecstasy And Exiles ''the Crack Between The Worlds Is AGraceful, Deeplyfelt Spiritual MemoirDancer And Choreographer Maggie Kast Moves Through The Hidden Alcoves Of Her Heart To Reflect On ALife Of Love And Tragedy, And In That Sacred Space She Finds Mystery, Faith, And Healing Gestures.'' dinty WMoore, Author Of The Accidental Buddhist ''from The First Lines, Maggie Kast's World Of Faith And Doubt, Of Death And Life, Of Heartbreaking Losses And Profound Joys Totally Engages And Often Challenges The ReaderHer Writing Is LuminousHer Style Is Graceful And Spareperh
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