Voice Lessons: Tale of Breaking Free

by Catherine Holm

Overview

Linked by the theme of finding our voices, breaking free of constraints, and transformation, the stories in Voice Lessons look at what it means to move into a new way of being, or to reexamine our beliefs and internal stories. A woman who can't resolve her relationship with her mother takes solace in the wilderness. A man leaves his corporate job impulsively, finding that the noise of ferry boats tugs open his heart. North Dakota hills call to a woman on a passenger train. A deaf woman wants to learn to sing. A moneyed couple's life falls apart when their acquisitions disappear. These and other stories explore what it means to listen to one's true voice, and act on it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878399864
Publisher:	North Star Press of Saint Cloud
Publication date:	03/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Catherine Holm is the author of the short story collection My Heart Is a Mountain and the memoir Driving with Cats: Ours for a Short Time. As Ann Catanzaro, she writes cat fantasy fiction. She is a freelance writer and editor, a yoga instructor, and lives in Cook, Minnesota, with her husband, several cats, and a dog.

Table of Contents

So Great and Big 1

Finding Mother 5

Mrs. M 13

La Neveria 23

Voice Lessons 31

Walmart Greeter 41

Freeing His Voice at Last 50

Demeanor 53

The Arms of Witches 66

Gringo Child 72

Those Hills 80

The Bone Whisperer 87

Hunt 92

Mountain Song 99

What I Can't Remember: Memoir 107

Ferry Woman 108

What People are Saying About This

author of Lost & Found: A Memoir of Mothers - Kate St.Vincent Vogl

Cat Holm creates characters who can find hope even on the darkest of nights. A deaf woman yearns to sing, a widower seeks to find the spirit of his wife in the caprices of a young boy, in a car wash, at Walmart, anywhere. How strong the desire to protect the eggshell placed around the heart, as Holm so aptly observes. From her stories about a mother's death, a writers' retreat, and homeless children confronted in a city park, readers will discover stories so great and big—just as the first story of this collection is so eponymously named.