LEADER 00000nam 2200409 i 4500 001 sky297046606 003 SKY 005 20190703062306.0 008 190628s2019 nyu e b 001 0aeng 020 9781984801036 020 1984801031 040 BKCT|beng|erda|cBKCT|dSKYRV|dUtOrBLW 041 1 eng|hnor 092 BIO|bLONG 100 1 Long, Litt Woon,|d1958-|eauthor. 245 14 The way through the woods :|bon mushrooms and mourning / |cby Long Litt Woon ; translated from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland. 250 First U.S. edition. 264 1 New York :|bSpiegel & Grau,|c[2019] 264 4 |c©2019 300 xii, 291 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 Originally published in Norwegian as Stien tilbake til livet by Vigmostad & Bjorke, Oslo in 2017. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolfs unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years. Adrift in grief, she signed up for a beginners course on mushrooming, a course the two of them had planned to take togetherand found, to her surprise, that the pursuit of mushrooms rekindled her zest for life. This is the story of parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushroomsresilient, adaptable, and essential to natures cycle of death and rebirth. From idyllic Norwegian forests and urban flower beds to the sandy beaches of Corsica and New Yorks Central Park, Woon uncovers an abundance of surprises often hidden in plain sight. Along the way, she discovers the warm fellowship of other mushroom obsessives, and finds that giving her full attention to the natural world transforms her, opening a way for her to survive Eiolfs death, to see herself anew, and to reengage with life. 600 10 Long, Litt Woon. 650 0 Mushrooms. 650 0 Widows|vBiography. 655 0 Biography. 730 0 Stien tilbake til livet.|lEnglish.
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