An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey
 An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey is Richard Brautigan's eleventh and final published novel. Written in 1982 it was first published (posthumously) in 1994 in a French translation Cahier d'un Retour de Troie [Return of the Woman of Troy]. The first edition in English did not appear until 2000 when it was produced by St. Martins Press.The story set in 1982 is a series of diary entries by Brautigan about a woman named Nikki Arai who is suffering from cancer.