Odyssey of Ashes by Cheryl Krauter , Book review.

Odyssey of Ashes 

Is Cheryl Krauter memoir, releasing on 20 July 2021, this book is dedicated to her loving husband John, and it's about the aftermath of the death of her husband, the problems she faced in her partner's absence, and his love for fly fishing which lead his last wish to cremate his ashes in Montana river, inbetween we see many heartbreaking incidents and memories then will leave your handkerchief socked with tears but at the end after learning the art of letting go she learned to move on and celebrate the life of people who're once together with her but now just live in her memories. Her advice will teach you to move on and deal with the painful loss.

One of the luckiest people, to read it before it's actual release, an amazing story, it's the first memoir I've ever read in life and privileged enough to read life long lesson in my young age, Cheryl's first book I've read and to be very honest, I cried whenever her character did , the way she's written it is splendid and the way she dealt with the loss, I felt it. This book will be something extremely precious to me and the way she connected the nature with her inner battles and learnt lessons from it.
This book has taught me much more than, I've ever thought will , to be honest I've never heard of fly fishing before it, the innumerable precious memories that she spent with her partner all of sudden became a memory. The way she compared a time machine with her memories hit me , and with innumerable quotes, I was confused which one will hit you hard so , I decided not to include the quote , I want you to read the story yourself and feel it.
Because, I don't support spoilers.

DESCRIPTION 

Odyssey of Ashes: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Letting Go begins with the sudden death of Cheryl Krauter's spouse. Five months later, in a stroke of irony and magic, her husband wins a long-desired guided fly fishing trip in a raffle--and Cheryl decides to go in his place, fulfilling a promise to scatter his ashes by a trout stream.

Part I of this memoir is an account of the first year after Cheryl's husband's death, where she becomes an explorer in the infinite stream of grief and loss, a time traveler between the darkness of sorrow and the light of daily life. Part II concludes with stories of the poignant and humorous adventures she had during the ensuing year. Tying it all together and woven throughout is Cheryl's account of the creation of an altar assembled during the three-day ritual of Los Días de los Muertos.

Poetic and mythological, Odyssey of Ashes is a raw story of loss and the deep transformation that traveling through darkness and returning to light can bring. Less

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Cheryl Krauter, with forty years of experience in the field of depth psychology and human consciousness. She is the author of Surviving the Storm: A Workbook for Telling Your Cancer Story (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Psychosocial Care of Cancer Survivors: A Clinician's Guide and Workbook for Providing Wholehearted Care (Oxford University Press, 2018).