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Advance Praise for Praying with Jane Eyre
Praying with Jane Eyre is literary, spiritual, and autobiographical all at once. This is a book committed to the truths of thingsfrom the Holocaust to personal betrayalno matter how hard those truths may be.... We can follow [Vanessas] example of learning how to read as if our lives depend on itwhich I believe they do.
Terry Tempest Williams, from the foreword
In these soaring, openhearted essays, Vanessa Zoltan writes with fierce brilliance about suffering, survival, and the kind of meaning in life that can withstand real scrutiny.
John Green, bestselling author of the fault in our stars and the anthropocene reviewed
As an atheist, Ive hungered for these sermons. As a reader, Ive longed for this exegesis. This is a book about much more than how to pray secularly, and much more than how to read reverently. It is a book about how to be. And it is told through the wondrous earthly companionship of not just Jane Eyre, but the miraculous Vanessa Zoltan.
Lauren Sandler, author of this is all i got and righteous
How does one create a life of meaningnot merely a sense of purpose, but a ritual and a practice to give that purpose structure and powerwhen traditional religion feels untenable? Vanessa Zoltan destroys the boundaries between ethics and aesthetics with a radical and beautiful idea, one that will ring true to every passionate reader: that intentional reading can empower and shape our lives. More than a love letter to the power of books, more than a reinterpreting of religious practice, and much more than a reading of Jane Eyre, Praying with Jane Eyre invites us, in Zoltans accessible voice, into an intimacy with the most vulnerable parts of ourselves, and shows us how literature can sanctify them.
Dara Horn, author of eternal life and people love dead jews
This book will make you laugh. It will make you cry. But best of all, itll change the way you read forever.
Casper ter Kuile, author of the power of ritual and cohost of harry potter and the sacred text
Praying with Jane Eyre is a readable, huggable guide to better living, and loving, through literaturenot to mention the most affectionate portrait of grandparents that I have read in ages. And doses of Jay Gatsby and Harry Potter besides. Who can resist?
Mark Oppenheimer, HOST OF unorthodox podcast
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Zoltan, Vanessa, author.
Title: Praying with Jane Eyre: reflections on reading as a sacred practice
/ Vanessa Zoltan.
Description: New York : TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random
House LLC, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020055732 (print) | LCCN 2020055733 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593088005 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593088012 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Zoltan, VanessaBooks and reading. | Spiritual biography. | Eyre, Jane (Fictitious character). | Bront, Charlotte, 1816-1855Influence.
Classification: LCC BL73.Z65 A3 2021 (print) | LCC BL73.Z65 (ebook) | DDC 204/.3dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055732
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020055733
Book design by Lorie Pagnozzi, adapted for ebook by Estelle Malmed
Jacket design: Jess Morphew
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For Mom, who gave me Jane, and Stephanie, who gave me Bertha.
And for Dad; I write to make you proud.
This book is a collection of sermons, but I am using that term loosely. I use the word sermon because secular novels are my scripture and I am sharing the best news I can find from some of my favorite novels. But as an atheist Jew using fiction written after the age of miracles as scripture, the word essay is probably also true. Twelve of the sermons are from my favorite novel, Jane Eyre.
Because this book is one of sermons, it contains spoilers. All four of the texts I write about (Jane Eyre, Little Women, Harry Potter, and The Great Gatsby) have great plot twists, many of which, for the sake of the sermons contained in this book, I reveal. If you have not read these novels before, first of all, I suggest that you do; they are wonderful. However, there have been studies (most notably one out of the University of California, San Diego) indicating that spoilers often improve ones enjoyment of a text. The reason suggested in this study is that readers who already know the plot do not get distracted trying to follow the story or guessing what will happen next. Without these worries, the reader can simply enjoy the book. Regardless of your decision, I want to make sure you know what you are getting into: abandon all hope for unspoiled novels, ye who keep reading here.
I would also like to acknowledge that this book only reflects on the work of white cisgender authors. I chose to do this so that I would not engage in appropriation, but I understand that in making the choice not to appropriate, I risk erasure. If youre interested in reading books that inspire me and my work and are by people of color and/or trans people, I recommend the following books that I love as a place to start:
Roxane Gay uses literature and pop culture to understand her own life and big themes in her paradigm-shifting work Bad Feminist. Claudia Rankine uses stories from her own life and of people in the spotlight to investigate questions of identity and how society understands bodies in Citizen. Daniel Lavery brilliantly mocks and adores characters across literature in his hilarious book Texts from Jane Eyre and explores similar themes in his collection of essays Something That May Shock and Discredit You.
Louise Erdrich interlaces family stories in an examination of cultures that are beautiful and complicated in her incredible book Love Medicine. Yaa Gyasi explores the theme of intergenerational trauma, central to this book, in her amazing novel Homegoing. Carmen Maria Machado uses literary theory to understand trauma in her life in her incredible memoir, In the Dream House. This is a heavily abbreviated list, but a great jumping-off point if you want to avoid reading another white cis-lady after putting this down. These authors inspired my own understanding of the intersection of literature, identity, family, and culture through their works and I am grateful to them.
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