{"id":73817,"date":"2016-09-05T19:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T01:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-author-redsand-to-visit-cortez\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T01:48:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T01:48:37","slug":"new-mexico-author-redsand-to-visit-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-author-redsand-to-visit-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico author Redsand to visit Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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New Mexico author Anna Redsand will read from her memoir, \u201cTo Drink From The Silver Cup,\u201d on Sept. 10 at San Juan Coffee Co.<\/span>Diane J. Schmidt \/ Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

New Mexico author Anna Redsand\u2019s new memoir \u201cTo Drink From The Silver Cup\u201d details her upbringing as a missionary on the Navajo Nation and her decision to leave the church as she reconciled her sexuality.<\/p>\n

\u201cI became aware at the age of 16 that there would not be a place for me in the church, but it took me nine more years before I left,\u201d Redsand said. \u201cI was trying really hard to fit in. \u2026 It was because I had a partner that I decided I was going to live my life as a lesbian.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1973, that decision meant she would have to leave the church, she said.<\/p>\n

Redsand will visit San Juan Coffee Co. in Cortez at 7 p.m. September 10 for a book reading. She is touring the southwest to promote her book until November. After that the book tour will move to British Columbia and down the west coast of the U.S.<\/p>\n

Even though she grew up on the Navajo Nation, Redsand said she never felt like an outsider. It was enriching to learn a different language and experience a culture that was different from her own, she said.<\/p>\n

As a child, she didn\u2019t realize she was living a different sort of life, but as she grew older she became exposed to other environments, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew that there was more than one way to be \u2014 to be saved, or to live,\u201d she said. \u201cI could see that there was more than one way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ever since she was 19 years old, Redsand has known she needed to write something about her experience, she said. Occasionally, she gets a sense that she might have revealed too much about a certain part of the story, but she said the book feels right.<\/p>\n

There are lots of people who for different reasons can relate to the story, Redsand said. She\u2019s meeting more and more people who she thinks need to hear her story.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the one thing I had to do,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s becoming clear that that was the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redsand hopes that people reading the book will realize not to give up on working out tings in their lives that are unresolved. She encourages people to keep after their dreams.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe book resonates with people who have felt outcast in different ways,\u201d Redsand said.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit www.annaredsand.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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