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The Consequence of Stars: A Memoir of Home Paperback – March 28, 2019

by David W. Berner (Author)
4.9 out of 5 stars (14)
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“Berner gives us both travelogue and memoir in living, breathing depth and color. Outstanding!" (D.S. White, Editor-in-Chief, Longshot Island)



"Reflective, engaging… Berner's authentic storytelling takes you with him on his travels through the chapters of his life where in the end, he reveals connections to finding a place to be, his home under the stars." (Nancy Chadwick, author of Under the Birch Tree)



“A writer with an enormous sense of humanity.” (Grady Harp, San Francisco Review of Books)



“Berner has a no-holds-barred writing style. Raw, honest, confessional. He’s a master storyteller.” (Geralyn Hesslau Magrady, author of Lines)



“Berner’s work always captures the essence of what it is to be human.” (Larry Richert, KDKA Radio)



“Berner writes with vulnerability, humor, and grace.” (Scott Whitehair, founder, Chicago’s This Much is True.)

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  1. Print length
    208 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    March 28, 2019
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.52 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1950437442
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1950437443
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Five-Star Review: "Some people are natural born storytellers, and David W. Berner certainly falls into that category, THE CONSEQUENCE OF STARS is an insightful and entertaining look at finding your identity in a world where it is easy to get lost trying to find your way home." --IndiesToday.com

"Berner gives us both travelogue and memoir in living, breathing depth and color. Outstanding!" --D.S. White, Editor-in-Chief, Longshot Island
"Reflective, engaging."--Nancy Chadwick, author of Under the Birch Tree

"A writer with an enormous sense of humanity." --Grady Harp, San Francisco Review of Books

"Berner has a no-holds-barred writing style. Raw, honest, confessional. He's a master storyteller." --Geralyn Hesslau Magrady, author of Lines

"Berner's work always captures the essence of what it is to be human." --Larry Richert, KDKA Radio

"Berner writes with vulnerability, humor, and grace." --Scott Whitehair, founder, Chicago's This Much is True.

The Consequence of Stars is a memoir-in-essays--a mosaic of the experience of searching for one's place in the world. Writer David W. Berner recalls a solo and revealing cross-country train ride, a spiritual awakening in the Navajo Nation, performs music with Jack Kerouac groupies at the writer's former Florida home, and hunts for the ghost of Hemingway in the attic of the famous writer's birthplace home. He revisit his parent's lifelong love affair with their hometown and one another despite life-threatening odds, and sets out to build a Thoreau-like writer's shed, hoping to discover an artistic space and an artist's home.

About the Author

David W. Berner is an award-winning author, broadcaster and journalist, whose career honors include the position of Writer-in-Residence at the Jack Kerouac Project and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. He lives outside Chicago, Illinois.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Adelaide Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 28, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1950437442
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1950437443
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.52 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.9 out of 5 stars (14)

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David W. Berner is the best-selling author of several books of fiction and memoir. His novella, THE ISLANDER has won several prestigious awards, including the NYC Big Book Award for Novellas, was an honoree at the Paris Book Festival, and a finalist for the Hawthorne Prize. His memoir, WALKS WITH SAM, is a best-seller from Collective Ink Books. He's also the author of award-winning books DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, A WELL-RESPECTED MAN, OCTOBER SONG, ACCIDENTAL LESSONS, ANY ROAD WILL TAKE YOU THERE, THERE'S A HAMSTER IN THE DASHBOARD, NIGHT RADIO, and the memoir THE CONSEQUENCE OF STARS.

David has also been honored and has won awards from the prestigious Society of Midland Authors, the Chicago Writers Association, Literary Titan Gold Award, and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. David has also been the Writer-in-Residence at both the Jack Kerouac Project in Orlando, FL and at the Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Home and Museum in Oak Park, IL.

David moved from Pittsburgh to Chicago to work as a radio reporter and news anchor for CBS Radio and later pursued a career as a writer and educator. His first book ACCIDENTAL LESSONS is about his year teaching in one of the Chicago area's most troubled school districts. The book won the Golden Dragonfly Grand Prize for Literature and has been called a "beautiful, elegantly written book" by award-winning author Thomas E. Kennedy, and "a terrific memoir" by Rick Kogan (Chicago Tribune and WGN Radio). ANY ROAD WILL TAKE YOU THERE—a 2013 Book of the Year from the Chicago Writers Association—is the author's story of a cross-country road trip with his sons and the revelations of fatherhood. The memoir has been called "heartwarming and heartbreaking" and "a five-star wonderful read." His novel, A WELL-RESPECTED MAN was a 2019 honoree in the fiction category of The Society of Midland Authors Awards.

David continues to work as a journalist an instructor at the Gotham Writers' Workshop out of New York City.

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4.9 out of 5 stars
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  • L. Johnson
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's the Returning You Think About Not the Staying
    Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2019
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    I'm glad I bought a paperback copy of this book as it's one I'm going to tuck in my travel bag and reread in bits and pieces in my travels. Mr. Berner has crafted a memoir that speaks to anyone that's left the confines of their childhood town and ventured out into places less traveled seeking their place in the world. It's visits to quiet places of reverence, to foreign lands of color and sound. It is finding out in remote places that your existence is not always necessary to others but it is necessary to YOU, and in finding that you may find your soul's twin to travel with on the journey. The book covers coming to terms with trials that steal both our words and our loved ones - those times of trouble where it seems that the starlight is not bright enough to bring the shadow into shape. Yet it also closes with finding one's true course, where the stars are a bright beacon to bring us back to home. Breathtaking writing.
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  • Bill
    5.0 out of 5 stars A book to savor...
    Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2019
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    I enjoy personal essays that hook me into deeper thoughts and emotions. I enjoy memoirs that are more than a diary of one’s life, that also cause me to look deeper into my own life. David W Berner’s, The Consequence of Stars, is a book that combines essays linked with memoir around the idea of home, around the concept to make home wherever you find yourself. It is powerful and rich; a book I had to frequently pause reading in order to allow his words to sink in so my being could absorb them. It’s an excellent book written by an experienced writer. I highly recommend it.
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  • PaulineReidBookReviewer
    5.0 out of 5 stars A light easy memoir, that felt like a fictional read.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2020
    What This Book Is About.
    This is a memoir, but set out more of a story telling book.

    We get to hear about the authors Mum and Dad and how his parents were bought up.

    The second chapter, The Runaway ... when the author himself at the age of 7, decided to leave home, leaving a trial of devastation and sadness but actually causing the opposite effect to his Mum and then going back because he remembered he needed a bit of money, there is a bit more chit chat goes on and then the author delves into (dont know how old, but by this time he has had kids of his own, been divorced and a new woman on the scene) going back to see the house he had grown up in.

    The author talks his way through his life with many adventures. He travels to Paris, Notre Dame and talks briefly of the experiences there, oh and speaking of places, we also discover the author once was a landlord and tells us, not so much the tenants he meets, but stuff that would go wrong, silverfish being the last incident that drove him, not blindly like Lasik Surgery,but to a sudden holt.
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    My Thoughts On This Book
    Yes, alot goes on in this book and written in a style that's more of story telling, instead of dates, facts and figures. The story telling was quite entertaining.
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    There are definitely life lessons, but as we know, only you know what they mean, everyones been through something different.

    One little story I have to tell that plays homage in the life lesson department and one very risky one that had my alarm bells ringing was, when the author had Lasik Surgery and decided to drive home, unaided, which I thought was the most stupidist and idiotic thing to do, you will have to read for yourself to see how the author got out of that one.
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    Although a male author wrote this book, it wasn't too much of a "blokey-bloke" book.
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    The ending was just perfect and it rounded up the story in such good taste.
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    Recommendation
    I would recommend this book, to anyone who isn't worried about a traditional styled memoir, and anyone who wants a light, easy, entertaining read.
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  • Happy reviewer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Passionate memoir
    Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2019
    Format: Paperback
    I really like the approach David Berner has taken to writing this great memoir: rather than a chronological account of his life, he focuses in on certain key periods, treating various themes like love, grief, and moving away from home. It is at times amusing, other times sad or moving, revealing his passion for life throughout. Berner's interesting reflections on the events that have marked his journey through this world make for a sparkling read.
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  • Madeline40
    5.0 out of 5 stars A master memoir
    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2019
    Format: Paperback
    David W. Berner’s new memoir (I call it a Master Memoir), The Consequence of the Stars: A Memoir of Home, is a series of stories about growing up; his family, including his wild and troubled sister; his two sons; homes he’s lived in; his train travels and drives west to places like the Navajo Nation, and to Paris visiting Hemingway’s haunts as related in The Moveable Feast. He also describes his times as the Writer-in-Residence at the Jack Kerouac Project in Orlando, Florida, and at the Ernest Hemingway Birthplace in Oak Park, Illinois. Berner ends his book in a new home outside of Chicago where he decides to build a writing shed in a corner of the backyard, making sure that his precious memorabilia and safely ensconced inside.

    Berner tells each story with such stunning and packed detail that it kept this reader in awe. Every place touched upon is colored with the songs and musicians of the day, the books that relate, the people that he meets – where they were, what they wore, what they said. Berner’s love of music is especially evident. Every once in a while he describes detouring into guitar playing with friends or the locals he meets during his travels. Also evident is Berner’s love of family – for his mother, father, sister, and his sons, his school day friends and their sometimes wild adventures, and finally for the new love in his life and how they set up their home together..

    The life stories in this memoir kept me thinking: I’ve done that, I’ve been there, I want to go there too. I loved this book, I recommend it to readers of all ages, and if I could, I would give it ten stars instead of a measly five.
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