When Your Heart Says Go: My Year of Traveling Beyond Loss and Loneliness – Paperback-Quality Guarantee

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Judy Reeves (Author)

What sort of mad longing besets a woman–nearing fifty and recently widowed–to sell everything she owns, buy an around-the-world airline ticket, pack a single suitcase, and set off alone on a year-long journey without a plan or agenda? When Your Heart Says Go answers that question.

Set in 1990-’91, Judy’s story takes readers from San Diego through eleven European countries, the then-Soviet Union, and finally India, during the lead-up to the first Gulf War. Explorations of foreign locales and interactions with strangers and acquaintances who become a lifeline to friendship are interspersed with occasional flashbacks to Judy’s life with her beloved husband, Tom, as well as his illness and death. s of sites historic and current serve as both daily life and background for Judy’s struggle to find her way as a sober, single, independent woman in the vast world as it edges toward the collapse of the Soviet Union and war in the Middle East. The outer journey serves as a container for the inner; the more Judy experiences of the world, the more she learns about herself–and the closer she gets to realizing her lifelong dream of being a of Pages: 256Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.5 INPublication Date: October 10, 2023