Interleaves: Ruminations on Illness and Spiritual Life

by Lata Mani

Interleaves is a paean to the transformative potential of catastrophic life changes. It records the twin journeys initiated in lata Mani’s life in the wake of a head injury she sustained in 1993: her baptism of fire into disability and her spontaneous awakening to Devi, the Divine Mother, in contect of this crisis. Through contemplative writing, poetry and cultural criticism of the way society perceives illness, Mani invites the reader to join her as she witnesses, honors, grieves and celebrates her experience, and in the process radically revises her prior sense of the very meaning, purpose and promise of life.

148 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[HC · Rating 3 out of 5]

5 stars for the first half, 3 stars for the second half, rounded down. I was much more interested in her personal reflections than the more abstract, spiritual reflections, but I do appreciate how the two halves worked together to reinforce the lessons. I also appreciate that she may not see them as quite as separate as I do/as the split in the book framed them. So glad I got to read.