The way through the woods: on mushrooms and mourning

✍ Scribed by Haveland, Barbara;Long, Litt Woon

• Book ID: 100589308
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group; Spiegel & Grau
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Edition: First U.S. edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 198480104X

✦ Synopsis

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.;One mushroom, one delight. Two mushrooms, double delight -- The next best death -- Secret places -- The inner circle -- Mushroom misgivings -- Fifty shades of poison -- True morels: the diamonds of the fungi kingdom -- Senses on the alert -- An aroma seminar -- The unmentionable -- From starter to dessert -- Latin class -- A kiss from heaven -- The mushroom code.

✦ Subjects

Widows -- Biography