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Dancing on Coals

A Memoir of an Overperformer

By: Cynthia Moore

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Paperback | 25 March 2025

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208 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.52

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An award-winning playwright's story of her madcap race to find fame or enlightenment--a unique angle on "the heroine's journey"--that's perfect for fans of Lori Gottleib's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone.

In Dancing on Coals, Cynthia Moore describes a multi-decade, harebrained search for love in all the wrong places, starting when her narcissistic mother abandons her to a Swiss finishing school. Devastated by her mother's betrayal, eleven-year-old Cynthia vows to become acceptable--but to whom?

Seeking approval first as a madcap performance artist and then an as over-functioning therapist, our narrator is finally forced to abandon her competitive, masculine compulsivity for a genuine quest for inner truth. Ultimately, she finds her voice, develops her gifts, and discovers love, but not where she expected to find it.

At times humorous and self-deprecating, at times poignant and heartbreaking, this is the story of one woman's path from abandonment to wholeness and authenticity.

Industry Reviews

“I was lucky enough to get to work with Cynthia when I became part of the Blake Street Hawkeyes. I’m not sure that she understood how much she meant to me because we were the two women in the group and I was out of my element and without her I don’t think I could have given myself permission to fly, as only another woman could. Thank goodness she was there and actually saw me and our conversations fed the construction of my one-woman show. She was my good friend....”—Whoopi Goldberg

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