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For fans ofLessandRemarkably Bright Creaturescomes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip
Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates. Shes mourning the recent loss of her best friend, Sara, but has brokered a tentative truce with Saras prickly widower as she helps him sort through the last of Saras possessions. Shesfine.
But in going through Saras old journal, Magda discovers her friends last directive: plans for a road trip they would take together in celebration of Magdas upcoming seventieth birthday. So, with Saras urn in tow, Magda decides to hit the road, crossing the country andencountering a cast of memorable charactersincluding her sister, from whom shes been keeping secrets. Along the way she stumbles upon a jazz funeral in New Orleans and a hilarious womens retreat meant to unleash ones divine feminine energy in Texas, and meets a woman who challenges her conceptions of herselfand the hidden truths about her friendship with Sara.
As the trip shakes up her careful routines, Magda finally faces longings she locked away years ago and confronts questions about her sexuality and identity she thought she had long put to rest. And as she soon learns, its never too late to start your next journey.
