Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
The Arts

MY INNER SKY

Mari Andrew

On Embracing Day, Night, and All the Times in Between

From the New York Times bestselling author Mari Andrew, a collection of essays and illustrations, divided into phases of the sky - twilight, golden hour, night, and dawn - that serves as a loyal companion for life's curveballs.

In her first book, Am I There Yet?, Mari Andrew explored the journey to adulthood. Now, in MY INNER SKY, Mari writes for those of us who have done the work to become the person we want to be, but find our identities shaken by the challenges of life. The warm essays in this collection offer insights both honest and uplifting about Mari's first brush with depression and post-trauma and recovery, to reflections on the meaning of home, the challenges of loneliness, and why sometimes you have to put yourself in the path of magic.

A whole, beautiful life is only made possible by the wide spectrum of feelings that exist between joy and sorrow. MY INNER SKY empowers us to transform everything that's happened to us into something meaningful, reassurance that even in our darkest times, we can always count on dawn to arrive.

Mari Andrew is a writer, artist, and speaker based in New York City. She is the author of Am I There Yet? and posts her writing and illustrations on Instagram at @bymariandrew.

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Book Published 2021-03-02 by Penguin Books

Comments

There's something about Mari Andrew's words and illustrations that make you feel at home. My Inner Sky reminds readers of the shared grief, joy, and sorrow that we experience throughout life - and how to cope with it.

Interview with MAri Andrew on MY INNER SKY Read more...

Mari Andrew is so relatably thrilled, frustrated, and fascinated by life - so recognizably human - that it's impossible not to root for her, and in doing so, root for all of us. My Inner Sky is the deep, peaceful exhale everyone needs right now and always.

To say this year has been challenging is an understatement and it's easy to despair at the scale of the loss we are collectively experiencing accross the globe. This book is a reminder that healing is humbling, that resilience is beautiful, that there is joy in choosing yourself and that life is made of little moments worth paying attention to and celebrating. Mari makes no grand pronouncements and doesn't offer any easy advice. Instead she shares with us one word and one illustration at a time why being alive is so damn worth it.

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Mari Andrew has a jeweler's eye. She teaches us to look at the world, and then to look again - to make a scared ritual of the ordinary, to search for magic in the mundane, and to excavate beauty from pain. Her collection of essays, My Inner Sky, is an enchanting, big-hearted study of how to navigate the in-betweenness of grief, illness, love and, ultimately, of healing. Through Andrew's stories, we travel through her innermost thoughts, the turbulent passages of her past, and all around the world - Spain, Greece, Australia, France, and the streets of New York City. At each turn, she uncovers hard-earned coins of wisdom in the most unlikely places. This book is a wonder, and a must-read for the heartsick, the suffering, the lonely, the seeking, which is to say: All of us.

A timely and modern prompt to allow, even celebrate, the full spectrum of emotion and experience into our lives, the pain, the splendor, and the many, many nuances in between.

Writer, artist, and seeker of magic, Mari Andrew and I explore the feeling of being at home in our bodies, intentionality in how we consume media, eliminating emotional binaries, struggling with where to put grief, and the rich sacredness that exists in the bright and the dark. Read more...

Mari Andrew's words and artwork in My Inner Sky are exactly what the world needs now: hopeful, uplifting, and healing. This book is for anyone who needs an infusion of light in their life.

Excerpt: Finding Creativity in the Wintertime Rhythms of a Bordeaux Vineyard ... Read more...

Looking for a grounding read? This collection of essays and illustrations can help you out with that. It's broken into four dreamy sections: twilight, golden hour, night, and dawn. Each one tackles emotions - from trying to heal after trauma to finding love in surprising places. Plus, this book will look cute on your coffee table when you're finished with it.