Sonya Lea's essays and interviews have appeared in Salon, The Southern Review, Brevity, Cold Mountain Review, Tricycle, The Prentice Hall College Reader, and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and excerpts from Wondering Who You Are have received an international memoir prize and an Artist Trust Award. Lea teaches writing at Hugo House in Seattle, and she's leading a pilot project to teach writing to women veterans through Tom Skerrit's Red Badge Project. She recently directed her first short film, Every Beautiful Thing, which will play in festivals in spring 2015. Originally from Kentucky, she currently lives in Seattle, Washington. Find her at www.sonyalea.net
Wondering Who You Are a quietly wrenching memoir that's as much
about what makes any of us who we are as it is about Lea's own
story.-- "Minneapolis Star Tribune"
In this brave, inspiring memoir she recounts the losses, and what
it took to rebuild.-- "People"
Sonya Lea tells her extraordinary story extraordinarily well. She
has a rare ability to bring readers to the places where love and
sex intermingle, collide, or go their separate ways. Wondering Who
Your Are is an amazing accomplishment. Every page sparkles with
wisdom, candor, insight, and love.--Chris Ryan - Author of Sex at
Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern
Relationships
Sonya Lea's Wondering Who You Are is an extraordinary story. A
wrenching, deeply honest exploration of love and identity that made
me question my ideas about memory, about gender, about marriage and
family and faith. About the whole human rigmarole. Her story does
what the best stories do: it made me think about life in an
entirely new way.--Suzanne Morrison, author of Yoga Bitch, One
Woman's Quest to Conquer Skepticism, Cynicism, and Cigarettes on
the Path to Enlightenment
An incredibly intimate and honest memoir, Wondering Who You Are
shows more vividly than any work of nonfiction I've read in years
the endlessly complex and delicate nature of identity. In
particular, the book movingly reveals how mutable all relationships
are, how metamorphosis on one side of a partnership necessitates
metamorphosis on the other--we are all constantly changing.--Peter
Mountford, author of The Dismal Science
An intense and accomplished memoir . . . This sweet, erotic,
wrenching story asks quintessential questions about memory, the
constructed self, and love--its challenges and deep
compensations.--Priscilla Long, author of The Writer's Portable
Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life
This meditation on love and loss left me filled with wonder. Sonya
Lea considers every possibility--the full span of understanding,
from science to shamans to sex--in an effort to rediscover her
husband and, in the process, what makes us uniquely human: our
memories of who we are. Words like 'honest' and 'intimate' don't
even begin to describe this remarkable journey.--Brian Castner,
author of The Long Walk: A Story of War
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