Mark Wunderlich

Lessons and Carols

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“With sensitivity and wild intelligence, John West enters a psychic and emotional netherworld, moving among the shades of addiction, the fog of confusion, to emerge changed, connected to life and to love and to art. Lessons and Carols enlists the power of poetry, the consolation of philosophy, and the intense scrutiny of the autobiographical to describe—lyrically and movingly—the reconstruction of the self. Lessons and Carols is not a conventional story of adversity overcome, but the narrative of the author’s commitment to the making of a soul.”