| What Really Happened
"Like Anne Lamott, Alice Steinbach, and Natalie Goldberg, Caudron writes with insight, humor, and honesty." —Lisa Knopp, author of The Nature of Home and Flight Dreams
 Book Description
Guilt, envy, procrastination, and why a fully grown woman should not be forced to sleep with fifty other adults in a hostel with communal showers are just some of the topics addressed in this debut essay collection.
With gentle insight and self-deprecating humor, Caudron helps us understand that every experience -- no matter how difficult or embarrassing -- can show us something about ourselves.
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Here's what people are saying about What Really Happened:
“One of the best things about this collection of essays is its main character. Shari Caudron is exactly the kind of person you’d want to accompany to a free-for-all book sale, or a Buddhist retreat, or a definitely creepy puppet show—brave, funny, and gifted at recognizing the quirky and the transcendent.” —Leslie Rubinkowski, author of Impersonating Elvis
“What Really Happened will take readers on a witty and thought provoking journey—to explore some of your basic belief systems and open your eyes to others.” —Catherine DeVrye, best-selling author of Hope Happens! and Hot Lemon & Honey, and winner of Australian Executive Woman of the Year Award
“In these essays, Shari Caudron writes about subjects as diverse as tending a neighbor’s tropical fish and seeking God with a beguiling honesty. The charm of these essays lies in her gentle sense of humor, usually making fun of herself. But equally effective is her close observation of the household truths of our lives. This is a writer who respects her reader, who does not pose as an expert on life but rather is ardent about living, and that passion is contagious.” —Philip Gerard, author of Creative Nonfiction—Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life
“In these fine essays, Shari Caudron erases the distance between reader and writer. We are there with her as she evokes, probes and celebrates the small details that comprise a well-lived life: overcoming her fear of puppets at a marionette theater in Prague; searching for an old college roommate; learning Zen meditation at weekend seminar. Her essays are a feast.” “This is the kind of book to keep with you always, and dip into often to draw from its wisdom.” —Nirmala Lakshman, Joint Editor, The Hindu (India’s premiere daily newspaper)
“Shari Caudron’s essays are remarkable because they are consistently about important, universal subjects; they can be god-awful funny, and are always written with a high degree of introspection. Caudron puts a human face on complex subjects, helps us see the uncommon in the common, raises good questions, connects us to one another, and has a fresh, authoritative, inclusive and ethical point of view.” —Janet Wiscombe, Managing Editor, Workforce Management
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