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Paradise Road
- Author
- Marilyn Kriete
- Narrator
- Marilyn Kriete
- Publish Date
- 14 February 2023
- Run Time
- 8 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A restless child of the 1960s, Marilyn yearns for love, hippiedom, and escape from her controlling mother. At fourteen, she runs nearly a thousand miles away to Vancouver, British Columbia, eventually landing herself in a Catholic home for troubled girls. At sixteen, she’s emancipated, navigating adulthood without a high school diploma, and craving a soulmate. When she falls in love with Jack, the grad student living next door, life finally seems perfect. The two embark on a cross-continental bicycle trip, headed for South America, but before they reach Mexico, tragedy strikes.
Utterly shattered, Marilyn does the hardest thing she can imagine: a solo bicycle trip, part tribute, part life test. She conquers her fears but goes wildly off course, chasing her heart as she falls into a series of tragicomic rebounds. Two itinerant years later, a chain of events in Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains leads to a peace she never expected to find. Marilyn’s journey portrays a life unmoored by grief, brought to shore again.
Critics Review
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“An incredibly detailed and passionate journey…Kriete writes with drive, spinning a narrative that is both brutally honest and difficult to put down.”
Edmonton Journal
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“Watching Marilyn Kriete crack wide open and feel utterly wounded, only to watch her attempt to piece herself back together one mile at a time. From her happiness feeling truly ebullient to her crestfallen soul we meet a woman furiously bicycling toward her future. A beautifully painted story, I felt as if I was with her and cheering her on the entire time.”
Annie McDonnell, The Write Review
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Details
- Author
- Marilyn Kriete
- Narrator
- Marilyn Kriete
- Duration
- 8 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 February 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212432856
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Memoirs, Biography: general, Spirituality and religious experience
Synopsis
A restless child of the 1960s, Marilyn yearns for love, hippiedom, and escape from her controlling mother. At fourteen, she runs nearly a thousand miles away to Vancouver, British Columbia, eventually landing herself in a Catholic home for troubled girls. At sixteen, she’s emancipated, navigating adulthood without a high school diploma, and craving a soulmate. When she falls in love with Jack, the grad student living next door, life finally seems perfect. The two embark on a cross-continental bicycle trip, headed for South America, but before they reach Mexico, tragedy strikes. Utterly shattered, Marilyn does the hardest thing she can imagine: a solo bicycle trip, part tribute, part life test. She conquers her fears but goes wildly off course, chasing her heart as she falls into a series of tragicomic rebounds. Two itinerant years later, a chain of events in Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains leads to a peace she never expected to find. Marilyn’s journey portrays a life unmoored by grief, brought to shore again.
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