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THE ASHOKAN WAY
Gail Straub
Homebound Publications, 2018

Winner, Foreword Review Book Awards
Winner, Silver Medal Nautilus Book Awards
“Gail Straub’s The Ashokan Way speaks profoundly to the healing power of the places that most nourish us. . . .This is one beautiful book.”
— Christiane Northrup, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and Mother-Daughter Wisdom
“Beautiful, elegant, and important. . .”
— Elizabeth Lesser, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Open, Marrow and Cassandra Speaks
“Lyrical and pensive. . . .Straub demonstrates her wide range of emotions and literary skills in essays on watching birds, the destructiveness of hurricanes, dharma as true nature, and nature, art and spirituality as strange bedfellows, and other fascinating topics.”
— Spirituality and Practice
“Through the author’s finely tuned perceptions, nature becomes the protagonist in a vivid story that. . . will resonate with any reader who has ever felt a connection with place.”
— Hudson Valley One
“Masterful….A pioneering contribution toward rendering an ecology of soul.”
— Joseph Jastrab, author of Sacred Manhood, Sacred Earth
 
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RETURNING TO MY MOTHER'S HOUSE: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine
Gail Straub
High Point, 2008

Winner, Foreword Review Book Awards
Winner, Silver Medal Nautilus Book Awards
“Gail Straub’s memoir…shines as a model for a life lived outside convention…. Powerful and profound.”
— Molly Peacock, poet and author of Paradise, Piece by Piece
“There isn’t a woman alive who won’t be able to relate to this lyrical, poignant, and beautifully written story.”
— Christiane Northrup, M.D. New York Times bestselling author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and Mother-Daughter Wisdom
“A good book gifts its readers with an exquisite map of the human heart, and Gail Straub’s [book] does exactly that. … Eloquent and compelling.”
— Loung Ung, author of First They Killed My Father and Lucky Child