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Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime

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 seventeen countries ― visiting all the places her mother, struck with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, could not visit herself ― encountering some of the world’s most striking locales while confronting the slow loss of her mother.

Interweaving travelogue with family memories, Braver Than You Think takes the reader hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, white-water rafting on the Nile, volunteering at a monkey sanctuary in Bolivia, praying at an ashram in India, and fleeing the Arab Spring in Egypt. By embarking on an international journey, Downs learned to make every moment count, losing a parent while discovering the world. Perfect for fans of adventure memoirs like Wild and Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, this book explores grief and loss with tenderness, clarity, and humor, and offers a truly incredible roadmap to coping with the unimaginable.

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Product Details

Recommended Age Adults
Author Maggie Downs
ISBN 1640092927
Publication Date May 12, 2020
Publisher Counterpoint
Language English