Title: Healing: My Pilgrimage with Tagore, India’s Revered Teacher
Author: Linda L. George
Publisher: Lime Press
ISBN: 978 -1-954304-56-7
Genre: Memoir
Pages: 978-1954304567
Reviewed by: Ella Vincent

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Healing: My Pilgrimage with Tagore, India’s Revered Teacher is a moving memoir that tells the story of two people’s lives: author Linda George and renowned Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. George writes an emotional memoir about how her life was greatly intertwined with Tagore.

Healing tells the story of George’s husband who passed away from cancer, her mother’s lupus illness, and troubled marriages to find faith as a minister. While she’s navigating all these life challenges, she finds a kinship with Tagore and his poetry. As she learns more about his extraordinary life in India, George learns about how to find peace and gratitude in her life as she traveled to India.

George writes eloquently about how Tagore’s life profoundly influenced her own. Tagore’s beautiful poetry is highlighted in Healing: “The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who Hears/One man opens his throat to sing, the other sings in his mind/Where there is no love, where listeners are dumb, there never can be song.”

Tagore was also a philanthropist who opened schools and fought for girls to be educated as well. George writes about how his kindness led her to reach out more to underprivileged children. She also details how his friendship with Mahatma Gandhi inspired her to fight against hatred in the United States. George writes about Tagore’s overcoming tragedy helped her deal with trauma in her life as well.

George’s writing is so emotional and heartfelt that readers will instantly connect with Healing. Her writing about her faith in God and Tagore’s poetry helped her heal. George’s own poetry in the text also adds depth to the book as well: The banquet table of my soul/Will always reserve a seat for you, my Friend/I long to meet you beneath the shadows of the moon/So that we may share our songs/And dream our dances.

This book would be best for readers of poets like Tagore and international poets that are similar to him as well. The book would also be ideal for readers who want to learn about people who are on a spiritual journey, like readers who are social workers or in ministry. Even readers who aren’t spiritual can appreciate the lessons about love and gratitude throughout the text. Tagore’s and George’s poetry would be welcoming to readers who want to learn more about how to overcome difficult life challenges. Healing: My Pilgrimage with Tagore, India’s Revered Teacher is a memoir that will enlighten and engage readers.

A moving memoir that tells the story of two people’s lives: author Linda George and renowned Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. While navigating many life challenges, she finds a kinship with Tagore and his poetry. George’s writing is so emotional and heartfelt that readers will instantly connect with Healing.