Wish You Were Here
Author: Welborn, Amy
ISBN: 9780307716385
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Aug 2014
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
In this intensely personal memoir, author Amy Welborn tells the heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring story of her journey to Sicily with three of her children in the wake of her husband's sudden death.
Wish You Were Here- Travels Through Loss and Hope is the story of Amy Welborn's trip to the island of Sicily with three of her children five months after her husband's sudden death from a heart attack.Her journey through city and countryside, small town and ancient ruins, opens unexpected doors of memory and reflection, a pilgrimage of the heart and an exploration of the soul. It is an observant and wry memoir and travelogue, intensely personal yet speakingto universal experiences of love and loss.
Along the narrow roads and hairpin turns, the narrative reveals the beauty of the ordinary and the commonplace and asks stark questions about how we fill the empty places that a loved one leaves behind. It is a meditation on the possibility of faith, one that is unflinching, uncompromising, and altogether unsentimental when confronted by the ultimate test of belief. This book is not only a well-told memoir, but a testimony to the truth that love is stronger than death.
ISBN: 9780307716385
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Aug 2014
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
In this intensely personal memoir, author Amy Welborn tells the heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring story of her journey to Sicily with three of her children in the wake of her husband's sudden death.
Wish You Were Here- Travels Through Loss and Hope is the story of Amy Welborn's trip to the island of Sicily with three of her children five months after her husband's sudden death from a heart attack.Her journey through city and countryside, small town and ancient ruins, opens unexpected doors of memory and reflection, a pilgrimage of the heart and an exploration of the soul. It is an observant and wry memoir and travelogue, intensely personal yet speakingto universal experiences of love and loss.
Along the narrow roads and hairpin turns, the narrative reveals the beauty of the ordinary and the commonplace and asks stark questions about how we fill the empty places that a loved one leaves behind. It is a meditation on the possibility of faith, one that is unflinching, uncompromising, and altogether unsentimental when confronted by the ultimate test of belief. This book is not only a well-told memoir, but a testimony to the truth that love is stronger than death.
