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A true story about the ways loss can transform us into the people we want to become

What Looks Like Bravery is a gorgeous tender and beautiful book Im in tears with the happysad truth and beauty of it Laurel is a magnificent writer Cheryl Strayed New York Times bestselling author of Wild

Laurel Braitman spent her childhood learning from her dad how to outfish grown men keep bees and fix carburetors Diagnosed young with terminal cancer he raced against the clock to leave her the skills shed need to survive without him This was one legacy Another was relentless perfectionism and the belief that bravery meant never acknowledging your own fear

By her midthirties Laurel is a ship about to splinter on the rocks having learned the hard way that no achievement can protect her from pain or remove the guilt and regret her dads death leaves her with So she determines to explore her troubled internal wilderness by way of some big exterior onesNorthern New Mexico Western Alaska her Tinder App She finds help from a wise birder in the Bering Sea a few dozen grieving kids and a succession of smart teachers who convince her that you cannot be brave if youre not scared Along the way she faces a wildfire that threatens everyone and everything she cares about and is forced by life to say another wrenching goodbye long before she wants to This time she may not be ready but shes prepared Joy in the wake of loss she learns isnt possible despite the hardest things that happen to us but because of the meaning we forge from them