"My husband was dead. I'd lost my job and then my home-all within six vicious months. Life crumbled before my eyes. All I wanted to do was drive."
Cyndi Francois was only twenty-eight and newly married when her husband's sudden death changed her life. Nine months after discovering his lifeless body, she tucked his ashes safely in her glovebox, bought a tent, and began her unplanned journey in search of a greater purpose. Forty-seven national parks, forty-five thousand miles, and ten months later, it was finally time to face the burning question she'd desperately been trying to escape: What now?
"A raw, intimate portrait of the devastation that can be early grief. Convinced that her life has essentially ended after the death of her twenty-something husband just six weeks after their wedding, Francois sets out to escape her pain and ultimately returns home to face the most important question of all: What now? A reminder that we can do hard things, and that generally the only way out is through."
- Jenny Lisk, author, Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice, and founder, Widowed Parent Institute