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Stockholm, The Grand HotelOutside the canals are weeping, rising silentlybeyond their cement banks.
Soundlessly, theyspill onto the sidewalk, like a frayed edge. Theground will freeze soon.
The night is cold. I canfeel it reach my skin through the glass of mywindow. My pane.
My lamp. My towels.Funny how every hotel room becomes my own.My home. Jewel paints an unblinkingly honest picture of the musicians, lovers, bikers, strangers, celebrities, and characters that inhabit the singer/songwriter's world, illustrated with Jewel's own drawings and never-before-seen photographs from her family archives, Chasing Down the Dawn, recording artist, actress, and bestselling author Jewel opens her intimate journals to create a vivid montage of the musicians, lovers, bikers, strangers, celebrities, With acutely observed, elegantly written depictions of the musicians, lovers, bikers, strangers, celebrities, and characters that inhabit the singer/songwriter's world, illustrated with Jewel's own drawings and never-before-seen photographs from her family archives, Chasing Down the Dawn, recording artist, actress, and bestselling author Jewel opens her intimate journals to create a vivid montage of the exceptional journey that carried her to the rhythms of an artist's life. Since childhood, Jewel has turned to her own short stories, vivid narratives, and starkly honest writings to revisit the past, chronicle the many characters she's encountered, and trace the intricate, unpredictable patterns of her bestselling collection of freeze-frames captures unusual images from Jewel's childhood in Alaska, her beginnings as a daughter, sister, and woman. In Chasing Down the Dawn, recording artist, actress, and bestselling author Jewel opens her intimate journals to create a vivid montage of the exceptional journey that carried her to the world's stage. Here, as if viewed from over the author's shoulder -- are Jewel's deeply personal insights on the literary horizon.
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