My Joy Journey with Amy

A Love Story Through Life, Loss, Grief and Healing

Mark D Youngquist

$51.95 $44.36

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Mark D. Youngquist
19 August 2025

Memoirs; Oncology; Coping with illness; Dating, relationships, living together & marriage

There is no manual for how to handle a cancer diagnosis or for the journey through treatments.

Neither for the grief many families experience when the outcome results in the loss of a loved one. Loss is a profound, life-changing event that has no end. I will not pretend to have any tidy answers for you on how to overcome grief or to provide a process for you to follow in your own grief journey. I simply do not have one, even for myself.

This book is about my joy journey with the love of my life, Amy. You probably are curious about the use of the word joy in describing this journey. Certainly, cancer is not a joyful event, but the word joy had special meaning and significance to Amy and, because of her example, to many others. After receiving her cancer diagnosis, Amy expressed very adamantly that she wanted to somehow find joy in our cancer journey as well. As you read this collection of reflections, I think you will come to understand the joy Amy sought. Throughout this book, I recall the many wonderful, joyful memories of my life with Amy as well as chronicle my own challenges and struggles through grief to healing.

While writing My Joy Journey with Amy was in many ways cathartic for me, my hope is that this book will inspire you to follow Amy's example and find some way to seek joy each and every day.

""Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."" -Henri J.M. Nouwen

By: Mark D Youngquist
Imprint: Mark D. Youngquist
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 485g
ISBN: 9798992639919
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 19 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for My Joy Journey with Amy: A Love Story Through Life, Loss, Grief and Healing

""I read this book in one day! It is not a ""how to"" book on grief. It simply chronicles one family's journey through life, cancer, loss, and grief. It is filled with the joy they shared and their enduring love for each other. I was laughing one minute and fighting off tears the next. Everyone who has experienced loss will relate to the feelings and experiences of this family's joy journey. Amy must have been a special person to have been so loved. This book is a challenge to all of us to find and spread joy every single day!"" -Mark Rutkowski, Cancer Survivor ""How to spin the straw of immutable grief and loss into the gold of documenting a joyous life together? This author found solace writing a series of short essays sharing the quotidian moments that define a true loving partnership - the daily joys, struggles and inside jokes that all parents will recognize - alongside the dark days and indignities that accompany a cancer diagnosis, always keeping his Amy's imperative to ""find Joy, dammit!"" front and center as a guidepost through the dark times. A beautiful, sweet, funny/sad tribute to a shared life together and one man's journey through heartbreak."" -Jackie Gessner