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A Song for the Road

A Novel

by Kathleen Basi
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Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets Katherine Center's How to Walk Away in Kathleen Basi's debut novel about an unconventional road trip and what it means to honor the ones we love.
It's one year after the death of her husband and twin teenagers, and Miriam Tedesco has lost faith in humanity and herself. When a bouquet of flowers that her husband always sends on their anniversary shows up at her workplace, she completely unravels. With the help of her best friend, she realizes that it's time to pick up the pieces and begin to move on. Step one is not even cleaning out her family's possessions, but just taking inventory starting with her daughter's room. But when she opens her daughter's computer, she stumbles across a program her daughter has created detailing an automated cross-country road trip, for her and her husband to take as soon-to-be empty nesters.
Seeing and hearing the video clips of her kids embedded in the program, Miriam is determined to take this trip for her children. Armed with her husband's guitar, her daughter's cello, and her son's unfinished piano sonata, she embarks on a musical pilgrimage to grieve the family she fears she never loved enough. Along the way she meets a young, pregnant hitchhiker named Dicey, whose boisterous and spunky attitude reminds Miriam of her own daughter.
Tornadoes, impromptu concerts, and an unlikely friendship...whether she's prepared for it or not, Miriam's world is coming back to life. But as she struggles to keep her focus on the reason she set out on this journey, she has to confront the possibility that the best way to honor her family may be to accept the truths she never wanted to face.
Hopeful, honest, and tender, A Song for the Road is about courage, vulnerability, and forgiveness, even of yourself, when it really matters.

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    May 11, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781643856919

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      • ISBN: 9781643856919
      • File size: 846 KB

  • Languages

    • English

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    • Booklist

      May 1, 2021
      Miriam is a mother, or at least she was before her husband, Teo, and children, Talia and Blaise, were killed by a drunk driver. Now she is stuck in a never-ending loop of grief. Then she stumbles upon an app Talia built that would have sent Miriam and Teo on a wedding-anniversary cross-country journey. Before she loses her nerve, Miriam decides to take the trip alone. Soon she meets the very pregnant Dicey, who is ill but has a fierceness for life. As they get to know each other, Miriam shares how she met Teo, her love for the piano, and her college love Gus. While documenting the road trip online, Dicey and Miriam gather quite the following--including Gus, who is a famous composer, and was working with Blaise, who left behind an unfinished sonata. But there are secrets Gus doesn't know, and readers will follow Miriam's struggle as she figures out if she should tell him the truth, and how best to honor her family. Basi's exquisite, gut-wrenching debut is filled with loss, hope, and secrets that fans of Julianne Maclean's A Curve in the Road (2018) will enjoy.

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