Mary Marantz and Amber discuss embracing the broken places of stories, how they can be made beautiful, and her personal journey written in the bestselling memoir, Dirt.
Beautiful & Broken Questions Mary and Amber Discuss:(5:04) Take us back to your childhood and share a little about where you grew up and what family life was like.
(13:09) At what point did Jesus become intertwined in your story?
(17:13) You get to a point in Dirt where you’re clearly wrestling through completely discarding your roots and embracing their beauty. You write, “I think about the boots and the bones, and how I didn’t want to be so lowly as to stoop down and help another human being shake off their layers of mud. To wind up with their dirt on my hands. I think that’s because for a long time I believed freedom looked like getting to a place where none of the people were muddy.” Flesh that out for us a bit.
(24:00) As a young girl, your mom left to take a traveling job and over time she returned less and less. What are some of the impacts her absence had on you and how have you worked through those as an adult?
(37:18) I found myself laughing and choking back tears as I read about Goldie and her influence in your life. What legacy would you say your grandmother left in your life?
(45:15) You eventually move away from WV and attend Yale Law. Did you have to wrestle with your identity while attending Yale and then when visiting home?
(51:55) Dirt is very much a story of healing and as the subtitle states, “growing strong roots in what makes the broken beautiful.” As we close, what are a few areas of personal brokenness that you have experienced God’s faithfulness to make beautiful?
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