Yoga instructor reads from new book at Griffin Bay

You’ll not only stretch your mind, but you will want to stretch your body…. Here’s more from Nancy:

Griffin Bay Bookstore and the San Juan Island Library are excited to present the bestselling author, Claire Dederer, on Saturday night, January 28, 7:00 pm at Griffin Bay Bookstore. Her memoir, Poser – My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, full of wisdom and wit, has received wide praise nationally. Don’t miss this special evening with a gifted writer!

Author Claire Dederer

Ten years ago, Claire Dederer threw her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter. Told to try Yoga by everyone from the woman behind the counter at the co-op to the homeless guy on the corner, she signed up for her first class. She fell madly in love and over the course of the next decade she would tackle triangle, wheel, and the dreaded crow, becoming fast friends with some poses and developing long-standing feuds with others.

At the same time, she found herself confronting the forces that shaped her generation. Daughters of women who ran away to find themselves and made a few messes along the way, Dederer and her peers grew up determined to be good, good, good—even if this meant feeling hemmed in by the smugness of their organic-buying, attachment-parenting, anxiously conscientious little world. Yoga seemed to fit right into this virtuous program, but to her surprise, Dederer found that the deeper she went into the poses, the more they tested her most basic ideas of what makes a good mother, daughter, friend, and wife.

“Poser is a powerful, honest, ruefully funny memoir about one woman’s openhearted reckoning with her demons . . . In the hands of a gifted writer, the universal is embedded within the personal.”—Dani Shapiro, The New York Times Book Review

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