What started as a crazy idea suggested by a writer friend became the classic book that has been published in fourteen languages, is taught in universities and writing programs all over the world, and has, according to the thousands of letters Marya has received over the years, changed lives. Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.), in 1998, when she was twenty-three.
Sometimes we do it because we know we need to, though we may not know why. Waiting, you'll discover, can become a kind of spiritual practice in itself, requiring patience, acceptance, and stillness. There will be many points along the way where we stop, or we fumble, or we get tangled up or turned around. When we let it in and only when we do, she says, we begin to be integrated people and csn walk a spiritual path. Relinquishing the concept of a universal "Spirit" that exists outside of us, Hornbacher gives us the framework to explore the human spirit in each of us-the very thing that sends us searching, that connects us with one another, the thing that "comes knocking at the door of our emotionally and intellectually closed lives and asks to be let in."
In Waiting, Hornbacher uses the story of her own journey beginning with her recovery from alcoholism to offer a fresh approach to cultivating a spiritual life.
Many of us have been trained to think of spirituality as the sole provenance of religion and if we have come to feel that the religious are not the only ones with access to a spiritual life, we may still be casting about for what, precisely, a spiritual life would be, without a God, a religion, or a solid set of spiritual beliefs. For those who don't believe in God-or don't know whether they believe-New York Times best-selling author Marya Hornbacher offers an insightful, moving approach to the concept of faith.
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