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I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio
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I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Jean Feraca


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Jean Feraca s road to self-fulfillment has been as quirky and demanding as the characters in her memoir. A twenty-five-year veteran of public radio broadcasting, Feraca is also a writer and a poet. She is a talk show host beloved for her unique mixture of the humanities, poetry, and journalism, and is the creator of the pioneering international cultural affairs radio program "Here on Earth: Radio without Borders."
In this searing memoir, Feraca traces her own emergence. She pulls back the curtain on her private life, revealing unforgettable portraits of the characters in her brawling Italian American family: Jenny, the grandmother, the devil woman who threw Casey Stengel down an excavation pit; Dolly, the mother, a cross between Long John Silver and the Wife of Bath who in battling mental illness becomes the scourge of a Lutheran nursing home; and Stephen, the brilliant but troubled older brother, an anthropologist who was adopted into a Sioux tribe. While building a career and raising two sons, Feraca learns empathy when she faces her brother s cancer and her mother s dementia. As she finds her voice and sense of self, her story moves far afield: a sojourn in a Benedictine monastery, a courtship through the California wine country, a dip into Dante s hell in Italy s Appalachia, an expedition in the Peruvian Amazon, a day under a huppah as she marries a Jewish scientist.
Unique, eccentric, and distinctive, "I Hear Voices" is a memoir that tells a universal story of a woman evolving to fully embrace her life and the world. Best of all, from the many voices in Feraca s life emerges one that will be familiar to old fans and delightful to new ones leaping off the written page as compelling, eloquent, and surprising as ever.Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library AssociationWinner, August Derleth Book-length Nonfiction Award, The Council for Wisconsin Writers"

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  • Title I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio
  • Author Jean Feraca
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 164
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Terrace Books, Madison WI
  • Date August 6, 2007
  • ISBN 9780299223908 / 0299223906
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.4 x 0.66 in (23.57 x 16.26 x 1.68 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Radio broadcasters - United States, Feraca, Jean
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007011786
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Jean Feraca, Wisconsin Public Radio s Distinguished Senior Broadcaster, is host and executive producer of "Here on Earth: Radio without Borders." Feraca has received several honors including the "Nation" s Discovery Award and two Hopwood Awards. Recipient of an Ohio State and Gabriel Award for her "Women of Spirit "radio series on female leaders in the early Christian Church, she also received the National Telemedia Council s Distinguished Media Award for her radio advocacy of people with mental illness. A resident of Madison, Wisconsin, she is the author of three collections of poetry: "South from Rome: Il Mezzogiorno," "Crossing the Great Divide"; and "Rendered into Paradise.""
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