What I Forgot….and Why I Remembered
A Purposeful Memoir
A lyrical, hard-hitting memoir, setting one American woman’s journey against the larger landscape of the political and environmental disruption of her time and place.
In telling the story of a generation who “forgot” how important the health of our planet is to our personal and collective well-being, Jennifer Browdy calls on readers to remember our primary connection to the Earth and begin the process of transformation at the intersection of the personal, political and planetary.
Praise for What I Forgot….and Why I Remembered
“With this fine book, Browdy makes connections between the personal and the planetary. She documents the process of waking up to the world around us and she demonstrates how vibrant and rewarding an engaged life can be. This memoir is advocacy writing at its best.”
— Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Writing to Change the World, and The Green Boat: Revising Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
“Jennifer Browdy has chosen to write what she calls a “purposeful memoir….Her choice can inspire us all to see how our lives have been hijacked or distracted from what we most deeply desire, and how we can reclaim our lives for the sake of life on Earth.”
— Joanna Macy, author of Coming Back to Life and Active Hope(2022 edition): How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power
“This beautifully written and moving memoir of a woman’s search to find her authentic self, buried beneath decades of social conditioning and academic prejudice…offers hope, inspiration and support to all those who, aware of disaster staring us in the face, are searching for courage and insight into how to respond. A timely and most valuable contribution to the greatest challenge of our times.”
— Anne Baring, author of The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul