Christina Kemp - Across the Distance

Thursday, June 2, 2022 - 6:30pm

We are delighted to welcome you to an event with author Christina Kemp featuring her debut memoir Across the Distance: Reflections on Loving and Where We Did & Did Not Find Each Other, which received a 5-star editiorial review from Chanticleer Books. Kemp will be joined in conversation with Steph Jagger, whose memoir Everything Left to Remember was recently featured at an Eagle Harbor Book Company event.

In Across the Distance, Kemp weaves poetic language and piercing wisdom into this intimate exploration of relationships, grief, and loss. In her memoir, she reflects on eight significant relationships in her life, including those with her late father, her mother and younger brother, a childhood best friend, a coming-of-age mentor, two former lovers, and finally, with herself. Throughout, Kemp displays bravery, humor, and a gentle regard and compassion for the people who both shaped and wounded her, along with a willful determination to glean critical life lessons from these encounters. Readers are bound to identify with the universal themes contemplated by this sensitive, loving heroine: her keen eye for nature's beauty and rhythms, her signature self-awareness, and her unflinching desire to make sense of the harms that befall her. Her words reflect the boundless depths of loss, the power of healing, and the sacred truths that lay within, beneath, around, and among all of us.

"Kemp explores the nature of emotional distance and learning to love in an intimate collection.... Highly Recommended!" -Chanticleer Reviews

Christina A. Kemp grew up in the Pacific Northwest and is a writer and poet. She has a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, and a small private practice where she does guidance work with individuals from a blend of depth psychology, embodiment and spiritual perspectives. She has taught in the field of psychology, and also teaches dance to children. Across the Distance is her first book. She lives on Bainbridge Island.

Event address:

157 Winslow Way East

Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

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