Wish You Were Here

Travels Through Loss and Hope

Amy Welborn

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Three Rivers Press
15 August 2014

Biography: general; Memoirs; Gender studies: women

In this intensely personal memoir, author Amy Welborn tells the heartbreaking but ultimately inspiring story of her journey to Sicily with three of her children in the wake of her husband's sudden death.

Wish You Were Here- Travels Through Loss and Hope is the story of Amy Welborn's trip to the island of Sicily with three of her children five months after her husband's sudden death from a heart attack.

Her journey through city and countryside, small town and ancient ruins, opens unexpected doors of memory and reflection, a pilgrimage of the heart and an exploration of the soul. It is an observant and wry memoir and travelogue, intensely personal yet speakingto universal experiences of love and loss.

Along the narrow roads and hairpin turns, the narrative reveals the beauty of the ordinary and the commonplace and asks stark questions about how we fill the empty places that a loved one leaves behind. It is a meditation on the possibility of faith, one that is unflinching, uncompromising, and altogether unsentimental when confronted by the ultimate test of belief. This book is not only a well-told memoir, but a testimony to the truth that love is stronger than death.

By: Amy Welborn
Imprint: Three Rivers Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 207g
ISBN: 9780307716385
ISBN 10: 0307716384
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 August 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

AMY WELBORN has written for Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic News Service, Beliefnet, the New York Times, and Commonweal. She has five children and lives in Birmingham, Alabama.

Reviews for 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 illuminates even the thickest darkness. Funny, engagingly written, spiritually profound, Wish You Were Here is 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 of Shirt of Flame: A Year with Saint Thï¿½rï¿½se of Lisieux