Out of the Dark: A Memoir - Softcover

Elliott, Marian

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798894435992

Verlag: Cirque Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

One Woman. One Dog. One Journey Through Grief Toward Hope. When Marian Elliott's only son dies suddenly at nineteen, her world collapses. With her marriage unraveling and her daughters leaving home, she faces a house echoing with silence and a heart filled with unbearable loss. Desperate to survive the pain, she sets out in her aging Ford pickup-her son's dog, Gulliver, as her sole companion-on an 8,000-mile journey from Long Island to Alaska. What begins as an escape soon becomes a pilgrimage through grief, solitude, and the wild beauty of North America. Through endless miles and changing landscapes, Elliott confronts her sorrow and begins to rediscover the fragile pulse of life and love within herself. Her odyssey is not just about survival-it's about transformation, courage, and the enduring bond between a mother and her child. Out of the Dark is a redemptive road-trip memoir that speaks to anyone who has faced unimaginable loss and wondered how to begin again. Experience this moving true story of grief, healing, and the power of love to guide us home.

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Marian Elliott was born in New York City and grew up in Brooklyn, NY and the Long Island suburbs before moving to Alaska when she was 42. When she retired from 35 years of teaching young children, she turned her time and energy to creative writing. Her short story, "In Its Place," won first place for fiction in the Open to the Public category of the creative writing contest sponsored by the University of Alaska, Anchorage and the Anchorage Daily News. It was published in the May 2017 issue of We Alaskans and the November/December issue of Event Horizon literary magazine. She divides her time between her home at her apple orchard in Wasilla, Alaska and her cabin in the foothills of the Talkeetna Mountains.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cirque Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798894435992
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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