{"product_id":"braver-than-you-think-isbn-9781640094697","title":"Braver Than You Think","description":"\u003cb\u003eNewly married and established in her career as an award–winning newspaper journalist, Maggie Downs quits her job, sells her belongings, and embarks on the solo trip of a lifetime: Her mother’s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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 countries―visiting all the places her mother, struck with early–onset Alzheimer’s disease, could not visit herself―encountering some of the world’s most striking locales while confronting the slow loss of her mother. Interweaving travelogue with family memories, \u003ci\u003eBraver Than You Think\u003c\/i\u003e takes the reader hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, white–water rafting on the Nile, volunteering at a monkey sanctuary in Bolivia, praying at an ashram in India, and fleeing the Arab Spring in Egypt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy embarking on an international journey, Downs learned to make every moment count―traveling around the globe and home again, losing a parent while discovering the world. Perfect for fans of adventure memoirs like \u003ci\u003eWild\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWelcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBraver Than You Think\u003c\/i\u003e explores grief and loss with tenderness, clarity, and humor, and offers a truly incredible roadmap to coping with the unimaginable.“Downs has a fluid, conversational writing style, zooming in to particular anecdotes that illuminate her experience rather than trying to cover the entire year . . . The travel sections are compelling and lively. A poignant tale of connection and disconnection through travel.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “With a mother in the final stages of Alzheimer's, Maggie Downs tries to run from her grief, but instead takes us to the far reaches of the globe, cuddling (and being bitten) by endangered monkeys, bonding with elephants, and working to save sea turtles. It's a journey to make any of us wonder if we're braver than we think.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Diana Marcum, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tenth Island\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaggie Downs\u003c\/b\u003e is an award–winning writer based in Palm Springs, California. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Palm Springs Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney’s\u003c\/i\u003e and has been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Planet Travel Anthology: True Stories from the World’s Best Writers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest Women’s Travel Writing. Braver Than You Think\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book. Find out more at maggiedowns.com.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302462902501,"sku":"NP9781640094697","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781640094697.jpg?v=1767723028","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/braver-than-you-think-isbn-9781640094697","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}