Traveling with Ghosts: A Memoir
Written by Shannon Leone Fowler
Narrated by Rachel Dulude
4.5/5
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Shattered and untethered, Shannon's life paused indefinitely so that she could travel around the world to find healing. Travel had forged her relationship with Sean, and she hoped it could also aid in processing his death. Though Sean wasn't with Shannon, he was everywhere she went-among the places she visited were Osacute;wieogon;cim, Poland (the site of Auschwitz); war-torn Israel; shelled-out Bosnia; poverty-stricken Romania; and finally to Barcelona, where she first met Sean years before.
Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk in this beautiful, profoundly moving memorial to those we have lost on our journeys and the unexpected ways their presence echoes in all places-and voyages-big and small.
Shannon Leone Fowler
Shannon Leone Fowler is a marine biologist, writer, and single mother of three young children. Since her doctorate on Australian sea lions, she’s taught marine ecology in the Bahamas and Galápagos, led a university course on killer whales in the San Juan islands, spent a number of seasons as the marine mammal biologist on board ships in both the Arctic and Antarctic, taught graduate students field techniques while studying Weddell seals on the Ross Ice Shelf, and worked as a science writer at National Public Radio in Washington, DC. Originally from California, she currently lives in London. Traveling with Ghosts is her first book.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Traveling with Ghosts is a memoir of Shannon's travels through Israel and Eastern Europe (with flashbacks to other trips and her childhood in California) in the wake of her fiancé's sudden death.The paperback was given to me by a good friend who once said to me at the beginning of my own journey through grief, "This is the club that no one ever wants you to be a part of. But now that you're here, we're also here for you." It is one of the most honest descriptions of grief I have ever read. I wouldn't recommend it to someone actively grieving (you'll take one look at the description and nope on out of that reading experience anyway) — it's raw and painful. But when you get to the part of your life when you're wondering "why doesn't anyone know anything about what this experience actually looks like," pick this book up, and then never go swimming in Thailand ever again.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Traveling with Ghosts is Fowler’s soulful tale of her fiancé’s sudden death and her subsequent attempts to come to terms with the loss through travel and writing. In this, we see a disappeared relationship reconstructed and celebrated, Fowler coming to do the same with the life that remains to her. This is fine travel writing and in that sense it will appeal to those looking for a slice of the life unlived, but there’s also true poignancy and insight into self and relationships here and enough clever linguistic turns to satisfy the most literary of readers.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am SO impressed with Fowler's ability to write---and most especially about such an extremely personal and emotional part of her life. I found the book absolutely fascinating---the descriptions were incredibly detailed and although she mentions keeping journals there is just an amazing view that is presented to the reader---you can actually "see" Shannon as she experiences this period of her life. I found the most rewarding part of the book to be the two Israeli women who just plain stopped their own lives in order to care for Shannon immediately after Sean's death----they have a life long relationship now and no wonder---just an incredible story of giving by two human beings--how many people are there like that in this world of divisions? I'm not sure what she will write about next but I do hope that Shannon Fowler continues to put pen to paper and write.......