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A lyrical and honest portrait of illness and the way it changes life and faith, from the award-winning author of Things Seen and Unseen.
In the winter of 2009, Nora Gallagher was told she had an inflamed optic nerve, cause unknown, that if untreated would leave her blind. With this news, and the search for a diagnosis and treatment, her once busy and fast-moving life tunneled into a quieter country she calls Oz: unfamiliar, slower, deeply rooted in uncertainty and vulnerability. Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic, written as Gallagher was still recovering, is a moving meditation on serious illness, what helped her through and what didn’t, why a wall exists between the sick and the healthy, and what can take it down partway. It is also a testament of modern faith—accepting of both science and intellect—and a hard-won revelation of what lies at the heart of ordinary suffering.
- Sales Rank: #912171 in Books
- Published on: 2014-02-11
- Released on: 2014-02-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.01" h x .68" w x 5.14" l, .50 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
From Booklist
Life-changing moments take place on seemingly ordinary days when we least expect it. That is one of the many lessons writer Gallagher (Practicing Resurrection, 2003) shares in this compelling memoir of the time she spent in what she calls the Land of Oz. Not the fantastical place that sprung from the imagination of L. Frank Baum but rather the place where the sick reside. When her doctor finds something amiss during a routine eye examination, she begins a long journey on a difficult yellow-brick road. Gallagher’s memoir is about many things: illness, mortality, faith and doubt, work, busyness, navigating through the crazy quilt that is the American health-care system, and, ultimately, about regaining one’s health and one’s place in the universe. Most of all, it is the memoir of a writer’s life (“Books were to my family’s house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival”) and the fear of losing one of the most precious tools of not only of the literary realm but of life itself: the gift of sight. --June Sawyers
Review
“A fabulous book—brilliant, tender soulful. Nora Gallagher is everything I love—smart, searching, vulnerable, faithful, doubting, deeply real, and a beautiful writer.” —Anne Lamott
“Phenomenal. . . . May be the best book about real faith that I will ever read.” —Sue Halpern, author of A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home
“Part medical mystery, part critique of the American health-care system, and part commentary on modern faith.” —The Washington Post
“Gallagher’s memoir is about many things: illness, mortality, faith and doubt, work, busyness, navigating through the crazy quilt that is the American health-care system, and, ultimately, about regaining one’s health and one’s place in the universe.” —Booklist
“A poetic tale of a personal medical crisis. . . . The author navigates the complex American health care system, the fear and mystery surrounding her search for medical answers and healing, and her renewed appreciation for the necessity of vision: to read, to write, and to view the world. . . . A deeply introspective journey.” —Kirkus Reviews
"Poignant. . . . Gallagher does not dole out easy answers in this somber, reflective work. But she finds the humble, bracing imperative to live in the present.” —Publishers Weekly
“[Gallagher] learned how illness can strip away not only the illusion of control, but also one’s faith, hope, and very identity. . . . She radically redefines what faith means to her.” —The Christian Century
About the Author
Nora Gallagher is the author of Changing Light, Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith, and Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace. Her essays, book reviews, and journalism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, DoubleTake, and Mother Jones, among other publications. She is also the editor of the award-winning Notes from the Field, a collection of literary essays about the outdoors. She sits on the advisory board of the Yale Divinity School.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Seeing Through
By Philip Koplin
Nora Gallagher went in search of a diagnosis for a collection of disturbing and mysterious symptoms related to her sight. What she found was in indeed a type of gnosis, a knowledge that comes to those who pass through a series of harrowing, transformative trials to emerge with a new vision of the world in both its mundane and, for lack of a better word, spiritual aspects and their place in it.
It was a journey she didn't enter willingly. A blurriness in her sight signaled the beginning of her metamorphosis into a "patient," one of those spectral inhabitants of a world the rest of us (who one might as well call "healthies") barely register as we go about our lives blessed with the illusion that our destiny is controllable and controlled by our will, at least until a calamity forces us to acknowledge our desperate vulnerability.
Gallagher was forced to rely on medical "specialists" and the supposedly powerful machinery of modern medicine, which often causes more confusion than it allays. As she shuttles among guides who turn out to be reliable and unreliable by turns, her anxieties and fears test and break open her understanding of the stories we tell ourselves and jointly construct about faith, god, and our communities of belief. It's a testimony to the grace and tact with which she ultimately re-imagines those stories that her conclusions, won at so difficult a price, feel genuine and convincing, albeit fittingly tentative.
This is not a book of easy consolations, of tips on finding sure and easy answers to the hardest of life's hard problems - how to deal with its unbearable trials and uncertainties and its one final certainty, mortality. It clearly took an uncommon honesty to write it. The reader with the courage to bring a similar honesty to it will see a world fraught yet potentially a place of resolution. Nora Gallagher is a deeply humane guide to the dark woods through which we all must some day pass.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Beautifully Written--About an Ugly Reality
By SingingOwl
This book chronicles Nora Gallager's journey to what she calls, "Oz." Oz is its own reality, the world one enters upon being seriously ill.
I was struck by the title because I am about to drive to Rochester, Minnesota's famed Mayo Clinic for the third time in as many months. My husband is in his own "Oz" --a a place I, by necessity, must visit. I have been there myself, and like Nora Gallager, my own Oz was about possible blindness. But my husband has been suffering for nearly a year with a strange set of still-undiagnosed symptoms. Our journey has been wrenching.
I, like Gallager, spent time in the sunshine-drenched atrium of Mayo's "Gonda Building" listening to beautifully-played music by someone dressed in green scrubs sitting at a grand piano. I described Mayo recently, before reading the book, as the most pristine place I have ever been, an "almost holy place" and "much like Disneyland." Thus, I laughed out loud to read the author's description of Mayo as a cross between Magic Mountain (a California amusement park) and Lourdes.
I bought this book to help the two of us cope with the emotional whirlpool we have been and are experiencing. We were immediately immersed into Gallager's eerily familiar world, a world of frustration and fear, of medical practicioners who are sometimes amazing and sometimes just amazingly wrong.
Gallager captures the sense most of us have experienced after a life-changing event, that surreal awareness that we were living in a world of make-believe where we tell ourselves that we, and those we love, will always be with us, unchanged. When everything shifts, in ways we never imagined, we are in another world altogether. Giving this alternate, but perhaps ultimately more real, place a name was a stroke of genius. I would not have called it "Oz." But that is unimportant. We have been using the name now to describe the strange place my husband lives.
Both my husband and I are ordained clergy. We are used to "helping" others. He served as a prison chaplain for more than 20 years--up until 9 months ago when his illness meant an end to work. Now we have questioned things we thought were solid, and we have changed in ways we never anticipated. We long to for life to return to "normal." It was comforting, in an odd way, to read that Gallager lost parts of her faith and that while she is involved in church it is in a very different way than before living in Oz. Perhaps we, too, can find hope in a seemingly hopeless time, and perhaps we can rekindle our own flickering faith.
Gallager's beautifully, achingly honest, refreshingly literate prose will be appreciated by anyone who loves words well used. This book will be particularly helpful to anyone who is in an Oz of their own, visiting one (like me) along with someone else, anyone who deals with ill people, anyone who is struggling to hang on to what is valuable and essential from the days before life changed. Pastors and counselors will find it helpful as well.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Nora Gallagher - Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
By Dane Goodman
Because of the quality of her past books, I set aside the day to lower myself into Nora Gallagher's words, to fully immerse in her clear-eyed, hard lived memoir, Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic. I was in her here-in-now for those hours, fully present inside of an exceptional experience.
This is what good art does (music, writing, visual art, etc): time evaporates, we are alive to the moment, not in the past or future, fully plugged in, steam coming out of our ears without knowing.
Absorbed from the first chapter, I followed her trail and its forks, compelled to the end, wanting more. Her acute visualness and unflinching candidness are remarkable.
Reality is crystalline, sharp, focused, hard to withstand. So neutral, it just unrelentingly is. And that is its inherent beauty, its singular look. Gallagher put me nose to nose with the real, allowing me to observe clearly, deeply. She, again, gave me her considerable gift of sustaining insight.
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