Natalie Golderg will visit Eagle Harbor Book Company in downtown Winslow to discuss her new memoir, “Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home,” which shares her experiences with cancer, grounded in her practice of writing and Zen at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 19.

It’s a moving and clear-eyed memoir from longtime Zen practitioner and world-renowned writing teacher Goldberg, on being in love with your life, even when life brings illness.

When Goldberg learns that she has CLL, a potentially fatal form of blood cancer, she is plunged into the world of hospitals, doctors and medication. Then, while trying to find a footing in this new and strange world, her partner, Yu-kwan, is also diagnosed with cancer. The cancer twins, as Goldberg calls herself and Yu-kwan, must then each navigate their own illness while somehow trying to stay in love and heal.

“When you go through extreme sickness, when everything you know and lived is tossed out the window and glass shatters … this, too, is part of life,” Goldberg wrote. “Don’t give up. Pay attention. We have to make ourselves larger to include the inconceivable.”

Through a direct and grounded narrative, she illuminates a path through illness: That we need to be in love with the life we have, to embrace the dark and the light in our life. For her, writing and painting represent the light, and her cancer takes her deeper into her art practices. Balanced with a Zen practice that helps her to face death, this book is a moving meditation on living life in full bloom.

Visit www.eagleharborbooks.com to learn more.