The Winding Way Home (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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The Winding Way Home is a moving meditation on a hard-won hope that persists in the face of traumatic crisis. When Jesse and Alexandra's young daughter is taken from their home in the middle of the night, a family's happy life is shattered. In the story that follows, Wildman takes us through the individual family members' intertwining quests to persist and make meaning in the face of unthinkable grief. In the aftermath of their great loss, the family is led down many unexpected corridors: an unusual spiritual quest that edges toward psychosis, a determined effort to fight the erasure of memories spurred by Alzheimer's disease, a journey into the horrifying world of missing and abducted children and the minds of their captors, and the eventual adoption of an abduction survivor and her young children. Together, they re-envision their lives in the wake of devastation, eventually forging a new and expanded family and a home where healing becomes possible. This is a family saga, a love story, an account of child abduction and its exacting aftermath, a tale of hard-won hope, and a profound exploration of the spiritual potential of ordinary life in the face of the unthinkable.