Wish You Were Here: Travels Through Loss and Hope (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307716385)

Wish You Were Here: Travels Through Loss and Hope is the story of Amy Welborn's trip to the island of Sicily with three of her children five months after her husband's sudden death from a heart attack. Her journey through city and countryside, small town and ancient ruins, opens unexpected doors of memory and reflection, a pilgrimage of the heart and an exploration of the soul. It is an observant and wry memoir and travelogue, intensely personal yet speaking to universal experiences of love and loss.
Along the narrow roads and hairpin turns, the narrative reveals the beauty of the ordinary and the commonplace and asks stark questions about how we fill the empty places that a loved one leaves behind. It is a meditation on the possibility of faith, one that is unflinching, uncompromising, and altogether unsentimental when confronted by the ultimate test of belief. This book is not only a well-told memoir, but a testimony to the truth that love is stronger than death.

Author: Amy Welborn
ISBN-10: 0307716384
ISBN-13: 9780307716385
Publisher: Prh Christian Publishing
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2012
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2011
Publishers Weekly 12/12/2011