Bibliograph

The way through the woods, on mushrooms and mourning, by Long Litt Woon ; translated from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland

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The way through the woods, on mushrooms and mourning, by Long Litt Woon ; translated from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The way through the woods

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1083154398

Responsibility statement

by Long Litt Woon ; translated from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland

Sub title

on mushrooms and mourning

Summary

A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing--hunting for mushrooms. 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 Eiolf's 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 beginner's course on mushrooming--a course the two of them had planned to take together--and found, to her surprise, that the pursuit of mushrooms rekindled her zest for life. The Way Through the Woods tells the story of parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushrooms--resilient, adaptable, and essential to nature's cycle of death and rebirth

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