Braver Than You Think
Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother's) Lifetime
$31.08
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2021
Summary
Newly married and established in her career as an award-winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime—Her mother’s.
As a child, Maggie Downs often doubted that she would ever possess the courage to visit the destinations her mother dreamed of one day seeing. “You are braver than you think,” her mother always insisted. That statement would guide her as, over the course of one year, Downs backpacked through sev…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781640094697 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1640094695 |
| Author: | Maggie Downs |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 140mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
“Downs has a fluid, conversational writing style, zooming in to particular anecdotes that illuminate her experience rather than trying to cover the entire year … The travel sections are compelling and lively. A poignant tale of connection and disconnection through travel.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“With a mother in the final stages of Alzheimer’s, Maggie Downs tries to run from her grief, but instead takes us to the far reaches of the globe, cuddling (and being bitten) by endangered monkeys, bonding with elephants, and working to save sea turtles. It’s a journey to make any of us wonder if we’re braver than we think.”
—Diana Marcum, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Tenth Island
About The Author
Maggie Downs
Maggie Downs is an award-winning writer based in Palm Springs, California. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Palm Springs Life, and McSweeney’s and has been anthologized in The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology- True Stories from the World’s Best Writers and Best Women’s Travel Writing. Braver Than You Think is her first book.
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