Ashley Judd is an award-winning film and stage actor known for her roles in both box-office hits and art-house gems, and the daughter and sister of country-music royalty. In 2002, drawing on a deep well of empathy, she found her true calling: as a humanitarian and advocate for those suffering in neglected parts of the world. Asked why she was opting out of a successful career, walking away while she was one of the highest-paid women in Hollywood, Ashley herself could not provide an answer. She simply knew that after her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast Asia, her own life depended on advocating on behalf of the vulnerable. Promising each new sister, "I will never forget you," Ashley began writing extraordinary diaries--on which this memoir is based--expanding her capacity to relate to, and to share with a global audience, stories of survival and resilience.
"All That Is Bitter and Sweet," is, at its heart, the story of Ashley Judd's awakening. In sharing the secrets of a childhood fraught with neglect, abuse and debilitating depression, she confronts the stigma of mental illness and celebrates the serenity that comes with the hard work of recovery. The reward is a new role on a new stage -- global advocate for HIV/AIDS sufferers. The humanitarian pursuit of social justice and gender equality is gritty work, but the people she meets in the slums, brothels, sex-slave markets, clinics and orphanages reinforce her faithful contention that every life has value. Judd's search for justice and peace -- for herself, and for the millions without a voice - is testament to the adage that when we help one person, we help the whole world." --Greg Mortenson, author of NYT bestselling "Three Cups of Tea
""Ashley Judd has written a deeply moving story -- amazingly, searingly, frank. It is her life story, warts and all. As I read her account of her
Title: All that is bitter and sweet
Subtitle: a memoir
Contributors:
By (author)
Maryanne Vollers
;
By (author)
Ashley Judd
ISBN 13: 9780345523624
ISBN 10: 0345523628
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Ballantine Books Inc.
Publication Date: 1/05/2012
Place of Publication:
New York,
United States
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Biography & autobiography: film, television, music, theatre
NBS Classification: Autobiography: The Arts
Dewey Classification:
791.43028092
(DC23)
;
791.4302
(DC21)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Height: 203mm
Width: 132mm
Thickness: 24mm
Weight: 367g