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The Blue Heron: A Memoir of Losing Myself, Finding My Wings, and Coming Home
Paperback
Series: Blue Heron, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 18 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sometimes finding your way home means finding yourself first.
The Blue Heron is Angela Hensley's deeply personal memoir of love, motherhood, marriage, loss, caregiving, and the long journey back to the woman she once knew.
Through decades of raising a family, navigating relationships, caring for the people she loved, and grieving the loss of her father, Angela often found herself putting everyone else first. Somewhere along the way, pieces of her own identity disappeared.
Then came the land.
Rooted in generations of family history in Western North Carolina, the place that would become the Blue Heron gave Angela something she desperately needed: a reason to rebuild. After Hurricane Helene damaged the property and its wildlife habitat, restoring the land became intertwined with restoring herself.
This is a story about the people we love, the people we lose, the choices we wish we could change, and the strength it takes to begin again.
At fifty, Angela finally understands that home isn't simply a place.
Sometimes, home is the person you become after everything you have survived.
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