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What Are You Waiting For?: An Anthology
Paperback
Publisher: Motina Books
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This poignant collection of essays, poetry, and artwork invites readers to reconsider what it means to wait. We all know the small, everyday waits-waiting for a plane to arrive, the workday to end, or a doctor to open the exam room door. But the writers, poets and artists in this collection explore this everyday human experience- at once universal and wholly unique-- in deeper and varied ways.
They write about waiting for a loved one to succumb to a terminal illness; waiting for heartbreak to soften; waiting for a child to grow up-and then wishing they were small again.
Throughout the book, the theme of gardening emerges as a quiet metaphor for hope and patience. What will grow? And when?
These twenty-nine contributors capture the essence of waiting through varied lenses and, ultimately, remind us: there can be richness and growth in the stillness, in the space that lives between the now and what comes next.
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