Room to Fly: A Transcultural Memoir Hardcover - 1999

From the rear cover

"Room to Fly is a feast of great richness and variety, filled with exquisitely nuanced descriptions of places that have shaped the spiritual growth of the author. She brings to the most fleeting encounters her memories, her reflections, and her deep knowledge of Indian history, all woven with consummate skill on the loom of her own life."--Nancy Willard, author of The Mountains of Quilt

"Room to Fly is unique in both form and content. I know of nothing else with which it might be meaningfully compared. This book is a treasure . . . structured with unobtrusive care to record the liberating moments of space."--Hazel Barnes, author of The Story I Tell Myself

"What makes Room to Fly so unusual is its rendering of memory and of the creative process itself. This book is at once a series of prose poems, a philosophy of aesthetics, and an exploration of cultures, written with such vivid immediacy and a language so beautifully crafted that we keep wanting to return to it again and again for the sheer pleasure of its music."--Marguerite Guzman Bouvard, author of Revolutionizing Motherhood

"This book is a gift of joy--a bright tapestry of perception and meditation, woven from threads of nature and art and friendship. Padma Hejmadi's experience of many years, in many lands and languages, is framed by a rich awareness of human possibility--of what it is to be fully alive in the senses, the mind, the heart, and the imagination."--Aileen Ward, author of John Keats

"Brilliant at catching the transitions between understanding and incomprehension, laughter and loss; at capturing transformations where personal experience opens up the world."--from M. Kay Flavell, author of "George Grosz: A Biography." Professor of Critical Theory, art critic, and Director the The Pacific Bridges Project.