What Looks Like Bravery

A true story about the ways loss can transform us into the people we want to become. ΓÇ£What Looks Like Bravery is a gorgeous,tenderand beautiful book. I’m in tears with the happy-sad truth and beauty of it. Laurel is a magnificent writer.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöCheryl StrayedNew York Times bestselling author of Wild Laurel Braitman spent her childhood learning from her dad how to out-fish grown menkeep beesand fix carburetors. Diagnosed young with terminal cancerhe raced against the clock to leave her the skills sheΓÇÖd need to survive without him. This was one legacy. Another was relentless perfectionism and the belief that bravery meant never acknowledging your own fear. By her mid-thirties Laurel is a ship about to splinter on the rockshaving learned the hard way that no achievement can protect her from pain or remove the guilt and regret her dadΓÇÖs death leaves her with. Soshe determines to explore her troubled internal wilderness by way of some big exterior onesΓÇöNorthern New MexicoWestern Alaskaher Tinder App. She finds help from a wise birder in the Bering Seaa few dozen grieving kidsand a succession of smart teachers who convince her that you cannot be brave if youΓÇÖre not scared. Along the wayshe faces a wildfire that threatens everyone and everything she cares about and is forced by life to say another wrenching goodbye long before she wants to. This time she may not be readybut sheΓÇÖs prepared. Joy in the wake of lossshe learnsisnΓÇÖt possible despite the hardest things that happen to usbut because of the meaning we forge from them.