Imperfect Control: Our Lifelong Struggles With Power and Surrender (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Imperfect Control: Our Lifelong Struggles With Power and Surrender Saturday, August 15 2009.

• In her remarkable national bestseller, Necessary Losses, Judith Viorst explored how we are shaped by the various losses we experience throughout our lives. Now, in her wise and perceptive new book, Imperfect Control, she shows us how our sense of self and all our important relationships are colored by our struggles over control: over wanting it and taking it, loving it and fearing it, and figuring out when the time has come to surrender it. Writing with compassion, acute psychological insight, and a touch of her trademark humor, Viorst invites us to contemplate the limits and possibilities of our control. She shows us how our lives can be shaped by our actions and our choices. She reminds us, too, that we sometimes should choose to let go. And she encourages us to find our own best balance between power and surrender.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Imperfect Control: Our Lifelong Struggles With Power and Surrender Saturday, August 15 2009.

• Added a contributor: Judith Viorst: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Imperfect Control: Our Lifelong Struggles With Power and Surrender Friday, July 17 2009.

• It seems foolish to speak of control when so many forces, inner and outer, have the power to sweep away our plans and dreams, when earthquakes and ice storms and plagues and wars, both literal and psychic, can undermine our dearest, most urgent intentions.