| A European Odyssey: How a boxer's daughter found grace Contributor(s): Alexander, Bailey (Author) |
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ISBN: 0984737480 ISBN-13: 9780984737482 Publisher: R. R. Bowker OUR PRICE: $9.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2020 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.81 lbs) 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: If you're missing travel, this book is for you; promise. I'll take you to dark places like Auschwitz, then we'll live together in the prettiest places, like Rome, then Paris for 6 blissed out years. We'll sail to the Azores in the middle of the Mediterranean on our sailboat, then we'll spend a year in Bohemia and throw a bash for the Pirate Party in Prague. It'll be an emotional rollercoaster... but the real drama began in Seattle, when my mother shared a family secret. In fact I have my mother to thank for losing my mind. Her confession made me feel like I'd been released from her womb all over again. It answered all the questions about our family; but what about the mystery that was me? I thought I had everything, but the truth was missing. Her secret inspired a transatlantic voyage, followed by a nomadic lifestyle in Europe. Forever in search of a home, . Rome was fantastic for 3 years until time stood still. Then Paris, where time flew by so fast it put me in a state of panic when it stopped. My mother's death forced me into a pathological grief which felt worse than the terror felt while crossing the Atlantic. Homeless and broke, I found myself living in Malta. In the middle of the Mediterranean, listening to the water gods laugh at me, as if to say "Ha, you risked everything and all that security, to end up here, surrounded by water; we are your worst nightmare " Failure was everywhere. Until I decided to live aboard our sailboat near Venice. There was nowhere to escape, except to myself. My odyssey lasted twenty years. I had to jump off a lot of cultural cliffs but eventually I found what I'd been chasing, which was grace. And a home, in the Northwest corner of Italy, nestled up against the Alps. In a place called Piemonte; another secret that needs to be told. |