For fans of Less and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip
Most days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates. Sheâs mourning the recent loss of her best friend, Sara, but has brokered a tentative truce with Saraâs prickly widower as she helps him sort through the last of Saraâs possessions. Sheâs fine.
But in going through Saraâs old journal, Magda discovers her friendâs last directive: plans for a road trip they would take together in celebration of Magdaâs upcoming seventieth birthday. So, with Saraâs urn in tow, Magda decides to hit the road, crossing the country and encountering a cast of memorable charactersâincluding her sister, from whom sheâs been keeping secrets. Along the way she stumbles upon a jazz funeral in New Orleans and a hilarious womenâs retreat meant to âunleash oneâs divine feminine energyâ in Texas, and meets a woman who challenges her conceptions of herselfâand the hidden truths about her friendship with Sara.
As the trip shakes up her careful routines, Magda finally faces longings she locked away years ago and confronts questions about her sexuality and identity she thought she had long put to rest. And as she soon learns, itâs never too late to start your next journey.