For fans of Less and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes a funny and moving novel about love
loss and new beginnings found on an unlikely road trip Most days Magda is fine. She has her
routines. She has her anxious therapy patients who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She
has her longtime colleagues whose playful bickering she mediates. Shes mourning the recent
loss of her best friend Sara but has brokered a tentative truce with Saras prickly widower as
she helps him sort through the last of Saras possessions. Shes fine . But in going through
Saras old journal Magda discovers her friends last directive: plans for a road trip they would
take together in celebration of Magdas upcoming seventieth birthday. So with Saras urn in tow
Magda decides to hit the road crossing the country andencountering a cast of memorable
charactersincluding her sister from whom shes been keeping secrets. Along the way she stumbles
upon a jazz funeral in New Orleans and a hilarious womens retreat meant to unleash ones divine
feminine energy in Texas and meets a woman who challenges her conceptions of herselfand the
hidden truths about her friendship with Sara. As the trip shakes up her careful routines Magda
finally faces longings she locked away years ago and confronts questions about her sexuality
and identity she thought she had long put to rest. And as she soon learns its never too late
to start your next journey.
