This could have been just
another mid-life-crisis-move-to-the-country-and-simplify-your-life memoir, but
it is much more than that. When her
daughter leaves for college, Darling, who was widowed ten years earlier, finds
she has fallen “off her own map….Now what?”
The cranky off-the-grid house she chooses to rent is a challenge in
itself. She gets a dog for company and
fears he hates her. She has always
gotten lost, and now she gets epically lost in the woods. She is just beginning to get her bearings and
settle into her new life when, mid-way through the book, it takes a turn for
the worse as she is diagnosed with breast cancer. How she finds her way, both through illness
and in the woods, makes for an exceptional story. 270 pp.
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