num_pages: 304
description: Newly married and established in her career as an awardwinning newspaper journalist Maggie Downs quits her job sells her belongings and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mothers.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 countriesvisiting all the places her mother struck with earlyonset Alzheimers disease could not visit herselfencountering some of the worlds 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 whitewater 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 counttraveling around the globe and home again losing a parent while discovering the world. Perfect for fans of adventure memoirs like Wild and Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube Braver Than You Think explores grief and loss with tenderness clarity and humor and offers a truly incredible roadmap to coping with the unimaginable.
language: English
title: Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime
publisher: Counterpoint