Window shopping for God : a comedian's search for meaning / Deborah Kimmett.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781771623995 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 274 pages ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Maderia Park, BC : Douglas and McIntyre, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
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| Subject: | Kimmett, Deborah (Deborah Ann) > Religion. Comedians > Canada > Biography. Spiritual biography > Canada. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 204.092 Kimme | 31681010370849 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
- Perseus Publishing
Window Shopping for God is a memoir by your average people-pleasing, meaning-of-life-seeking, downward-facing-dog-posing stand-up comedian.
Addiction, birth, death, Catholics, Buddhists, witches, therapists, family, friends, this book has it allâ¦read about Deborah's search for a belief system, the meaning of life and good scones. âColin Mochrie, star of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
*INDIES Book of the Year Award Silver Winner
Comedian Deborah Kimmett has worshipped a lot of deities. She has danced with witches, whirled with Sufis and explored the Power of Now like there was no tomorrow. And she has always looked for signs.So in 2014, when a sidewalk preacher calls on her to repent, she believes she must right her relationship with her estranged brother. Over the next few months, they create a bond hastened along by his terminal cancer diagnosisâbut as he dies, losing her sibling uses all her spiritual Air Miles, and sheâs confronting her addictions again, with no God to call her own. With nothing left to give and no one left to fix, Kimmett knows she needs to find new meaning in life. But the old gods just donât seem to be listening.
Window Shopping for God is the story of Kimmettâs lifelong flip through the catalog of beliefsâfrom her teen years, when a near-death experience gave her a new, less Catholic perspective, to her struggles with addiction and mental health that led her in and out of faithâand her search, as a woman in her sixties, for meaning that could finally plant her on firmer ground. Unflinchingly honest and wildly funny, Kimmettâs writing takes us down the serpentine routes we travel in our search for certainty, and the more familiar paths that bring us back to ourselves.