The way through the woods : on mushrooms and mourning /
Long, Litt Woon,
The way through the woods : on mushrooms and mourning / Long Litt Woon ; translated from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland. - First U.S. edition. - xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Originally published in Norwegian as Stien tilbake til livet by Vigmostad & Bjorke, Oslo in 2017.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-284) and index.
A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing--hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf's unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years. Adrift in grief, she signed up for a beginner's course on mushrooming--a course the two of them had planned to take together--and found, to her surprise, that the pursuit of mushrooms rekindled her zest for life. The Way Through the Woods tells the story of parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushrooms--resilient, adaptable, and essential to nature's cycle of death and rebirth.
Translated from the Norwegian.
9781984801036 1984801031 9788241915956 8241915950
2018059807
Long, Litt Woon.
Mushrooms.
Widows--Biography.
Autobiographies.
The way through the woods : on mushrooms and mourning / Long Litt Woon ; translated from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland. - First U.S. edition. - xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Originally published in Norwegian as Stien tilbake til livet by Vigmostad & Bjorke, Oslo in 2017.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-284) and index.
A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing--hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf's unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years. Adrift in grief, she signed up for a beginner's course on mushrooming--a course the two of them had planned to take together--and found, to her surprise, that the pursuit of mushrooms rekindled her zest for life. The Way Through the Woods tells the story of parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushrooms--resilient, adaptable, and essential to nature's cycle of death and rebirth.
Translated from the Norwegian.
9781984801036 1984801031 9788241915956 8241915950
2018059807
Long, Litt Woon.
Mushrooms.
Widows--Biography.
Autobiographies.