Break, Blow, Burn, and Make

"To read Break, Blow, Burn & Make is to behold - to gaze upon the beauty of the fragments and broken remains of our art and our lives, to be gifted the courage to be faithful makers. It is an invitation to hope, to persevere, to recalibrate through despair, to pray and ultimately to love. At times in reading this gem filled book, I wanted to pause and weep, and at other times I wanted to stand up and applaud.… I follow her into that sacred, darkened space, and sojourn into our daily discipline of making there.”

“E. Lily Yu is the author of stories that set me ablaze. What a gift to now read "Break, Blow, Burn, & Make," her extraordinary love letter to God and to language, to writers and readers, to all of us struggling to tune our ears to ‘the still small voice that speaks from our innermost being…’ Like Flannery O'Connor in Mystery and Manners, Yu shares her hard-won wisdom with moral seriousness, tender care, and prickly humor. Yu has written a singular blend of memoir, instruction, and inspiration… Break, Blow, Burn & Make is an incandescent book, flaming out from Yu's heart to the reader ‘like shining from shook foil.’ A masterpiece.”