Wish You Were Here: Travels Through Loss and Hope
"Amy Welborn's latest book is a must-read spiritual treasure. It reveals not only the heart-wrenching dynamics of grief but also the odd and wonderful way grace illumines even the thickest darkness. Funny, engagingly written, spiritually profound,Wish You Were Here is a gem."  --Fr. Robert Barron, author ofCatholicism.Wish You Were Here  is the story of Amy Welborn's trip to Sicily ...in the aftermath of her husband's sudden death. Her pitch-perfect prose moves seamlessly from the winding, unknown roads of Italy to the winding, unknown roads of grief. -- Mary DeTurris Post, author ofWalking Together: Discovering the Catholic Tradition of Spiritual Friendship."Far from a dry theological treatise, Welborn masterfully blends individual struggle, faith pondering, a what-happened-on-summer-vacation travelogue, and the wry insights of a mother traveling with 4-, 8- and 17-year-olds into a very personal yet very universal meditation on death." -- John M. Grondelski,National Catholic Register. "Amy Welborn's latest book is a must-read spiritual treasure. It reveals not only the heart-wrenching dynamics of grief but also the odd and wonderful way grace illuminates even the thickest darkness. Funny, engagingly written, spiritually profound,Wish You Were Hereis a gem." —Robert Baron, author of Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith“Amy Welborn says it best: ‘Everything but love has been burned away and a feast awaits.’ A brave and true memoir of grief, resurrected.”  —Heather King, author ofShirt of Flame: A Year with Saint Thérèse of Lisieux