![]() ![]() There was this constant swing between where she felt like she was in control but then a state confusion and uncertainty. The journal entries capture her teenage years perfectly, that whole feeling of being confused and unsure is something that just feels familiar. It gives you an idea of just how damaging the situation was for Wendy, even before starting the memoir. Excavation is a wonderful title for this memoir the idea that this whole situation was buried deep in her own emotions and mind and now she must excavate to get it out. Excavation: A Memoir is a disturbing but fascinating look into a destructive teacher/student relationship. ![]() Wendy takes her journal entries from her teenage years, during this relationship and combines it with her memories. In a world where we take this victim/perpetrator relationship as a black and white issue, Excavation: A Memoir explores the grey area. A deep excavation into a relationship that nurtured Wendy’s writing but also left psychological scars. She is an insecure and bookish girl with a passion for writing this memoir is about her relationship with a teacher fifteen years her senior. Ortiz was an only child to distant, alcoholic parents growing up in San Fernando Valley in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. Buy: Amazon, Book Depository, Kindle (or visit your local Indie bookstore) ![]()
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![]() ![]() Eisler shared evidence from archaeology, mythology, art, religion, and sculpture that strongly suggested that humans lived in relative peace and harmony, with gender-and-class equality, worshiping nature as a female deity, until only around 6,500 years ago. A holistic study of human history, it took into account important aspects that are normally, in our global dominator society, ignored: women and prehistory. I read it in 2014 and found it revelatory and amazing. Her most influential book, The Chalice and the Blade, published in 1987, has sold over half a million copies and been translated into 27 languages. She is the president of the Center For Partnership Systems, and the editor in chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies. Eisler married, had two daughters, earned a law degree from UCLA, divorced, practiced family law, and then wrote or co-wrote thirteen books. They went to Havana, Cuba, where they lived in an industrial slum for seven years before moving to the US and settling in Los Angeles. In 1939, she and her parents fled the Nazi invasion of their country. Riane Eisler was born in 1931 in Vienna, Austria. ![]() ![]() For Document, the two authors meet to discuss the role of law in shaping society, the allure of prehistory, and how to adopt new modes of thinking ![]() ![]() ![]() She finds it in the form of Devon's Eagle Scout box which has remained incomplete since his death. When she talks to her counselor about it, she tells Caitlin that he is the son of the teacher who was shot and killed in the shooting.Ĭaitlin discovers the words "empathy" and "closure" and determines that this is what she and her distraught father need. She meets a boy named Michael, who is strangely sad over his mother. Her counselor arranges for her to spend recess with the younger kids. ![]() Her classmates don't want to be friends with her due to her strange behavior. She likes to hide from the rest of the world under the dresser belonging to Devon. She is awkward and pedantic, seeing things in black and white, and referring to her deceased brother as "Devon who is dead" when talking to her father.Ĭaitlin's behaviors are perceived as "weird". Due to Caitlin's condition, she finds it difficult to cope with her feelings about what has happened. Her older brother Devon has just been killed, along with a teacher and another student, in a tragic school shooting. ![]() The book centers around the girl whose brother was killed in a school shooting.ġ0-year-old Caitlin Smith has Asperger’s syndrome and is preoccupied with drawing and dictionaries. In 2012 it was awarded the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award. National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Mockingbird is a young adult novel by American author Kathryn Erskine about a girl with Asperger's syndrome coping with the loss of her brother. ![]() |