This Week In America

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Written By Deborah Rudell

Deborah Rudell is featured on This Week In America to discuss Grit & Grace: The Transformation of a Ship & a Soul. In the memoir, Deborah leaves a spiritual commune after its leaders are exposed and imprisoned for bioterrorism and attempted murder. She then relocates with her family to Kauai, where she spends five years helping rebuild a derelict fifty-foot schooner.

As she navigates disillusionment and emotional turmoil, Deborah pursues a goal she never imagined possible, sailing across the Pacific to the Olympic Peninsula. Kirkus Reviews called the book “engaging and informative, with moments of great excitement, but also disturbing and weighted with angst.”

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Deborah Rudell

I grew up in a small town in British Columbia, the eldest of four children. Typical of the 60’s and 70’s, there were many children in the neighborhood and plenty of independence and autonomy. My parents were busy with younger siblings and as a child I found solace in my stuffed animals and imaginary friends. As a preteen, my grandmother taught me about reincarnation, Edgar Cayce, yoga and Jesus. As a teen, my coping mechanism for the pain I saw and felt in the world was a reading list that included Max Heindel’s The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, Gina Cerminara’s Many Mansions, Levi Dowling’s The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ and books about Atlantis.

https://www.deborahrudell.com/
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