LANDED: A YOGI’S MEMOIR IN PIECES & POSES
Vine Leaves Press, October 15, 2024
What does it feel like to live permanently between two places, two identities, two versions of yourself, without resolution?
In experimental chapterettes, some contained in a single page, American-born Jennifer Lang traces seven years of rooting down in a country that never quite feels like hers and a self that keeps shifting beneath her feet. Reckoning with her adopted country of Israel, midlife hormones, a cross-cultural marriage to a Frenchman, and their imminent empty nest, she applies the chakra wisdom of her first yoga teacher, nationally acclaimed Rodney Yee, to each obstacle on her path to understanding what home actually means.
The answer, when it finally comes, is not about a place. It is about who you are when you stop waiting to arrive.
Landed is Jennifer Lang’s second memoir, following Places We Left Behind, a finalist in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. Written in seven parts, each anchored to one of the seven chakras and to one year of a life lived at the intersection of yoga, Judaism, marriage, motherhood, and the particular loneliness of being permanently between two worlds.
“Lyrical. Poignant. Funny. Captures the essence of living as a perpetual outsider in Israel.” –Sarah Tuttle-Singer, author of Jerusalem, Drawn and Quartered
“Lyrical, witty, heartfelt chapters, some contained in a single page.” –Dawn Raffel, author of Boundless as the Sky
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AWARDS
Finalist in Multicultural Nonfiction, Independent Author Network
Book of the Year Awards 2025
- Finalist in Spiritual Nonfiction, Independent Author Network Book of the Year Awards 2025
- Finalist in Multicultural Nonfiction, American Writing Awards 2025
Winner for Best Coming-of-Middle-or-Old-Age, Zibby Awards 2024
Winner for Best Cover Design Nonfiction, Independent Author
Award 2025
Finalist for Adult Nonfiction, Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2024
- Gold Book Award Winner, Literary Titan 2024