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 two parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushrooms—resilient, adaptable, dizzyingly diverse, and essential to nature’s cycles of death and rebirth. Woon’s search for mushrooms takes her from idyllic Norwegian forests and urban flower beds to the sandy beaches of Corsica and New York’s Central Park, uncovering an abundance of surprises often hidden in plain sight: gelatinous, straight-from-a-fairy-tale Witches’ Cauldrons; salmon-pink Bloody Milk Caps, which ooze red liquid when cut; delectable morels—prized for their earthy yet delicate flavor; and bioluminescent mushrooms that light up the forest at night. Along the way, she discovers the warm fellowship of other mushroom obsessives, and finds that the act of giving her full attention to the natural world transforms her, opening a way for her to survive Eiolf’s death, to see herself anew, and to reengage with life.
The Way Through the Woods
- 作者： Long, Litt Woon
- 出版社： Spiegel & Gr
- 出版日期： 2019-07-02
- ISBN碼： 9781984801036
- 編號： 203c902302721
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