Paradise Road: A Memoir

Paradise Road: A Memoir

Join a runaway hippie on a poignant odyssey as she searches for love and home...

Reminiscent of Wild and Travelling with Ghosts, Marilyn’s journey portrays a life unmoored by grief, brought to shore again. PARADISE ROAD was selected as the International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club’s International Book of the Month for March 2021.

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A restless child of the 1960s, Marilyn yearns for love, hippiedom, and escape from her mother’s control. At 14, she runs nearly a thousand miles away to Vancouver, British Columbia, eventually landing herself in a Catholic home for troubled girls. At 16, 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, Jack dies. 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.

Reminiscent of Wild and Travelling with Ghosts, Marilyn’s journey portrays a life unmoored by grief, brought to shore again. PARADISE ROAD was selected as the International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club’s International Book of the Month for March 2021.

After a colorful life spanning four continents and 16 cities, earning her keep as cook, chambermaid, waitress, fisherwoman, missionary, speaker/teacher, tutor, and academic writing editor, MARILYN KRIETE now lives in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, with her charitable husband Henry and three demanding cats. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in The Lyric, Storyteller, The Eastern Iowa Review, The English Bay Review, and Brevity Blog. PARADISE ROAD is her debut memoir.

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Author: Marilyn Kriete
Publisher: Lucid House Publishing
Publication Year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Length: 280
ASIN: B0912MW8PV
ISBN: 9781950495115
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WOW!!! I just finished Paradise Road by Marilyn Kriete and all I can say is Wow!! I literally read it in one evening straight through because once I started I could not put it down. Marilyn's life story is so full of adventure and unexpected twists and turns that if I had not known her I would have thought that this book was fiction. It is a beautiful story written with such intelligence and wit. I laughed, I cried, I even wept as my heart was drawn in and deeply moved. Marilyn's story has renewed my faith in God and the mysterious and adventurous ways in which He moves in order to bring us to Him. My spirit was lifted and encouraged in ways that I have not felt in a very long time. This is a must read for anyone who is struggling to understand his or her path in life and is wanting to find the way. Marilyn, thank you so much for sharing your story. It is truly inspiring.
– Regi Theodore-Wise, Reader
"Every once in a while, a memoir comes along that is so inspiring you want to share it with the world. Paradise Road is the very brave story of a woman, who had the tenacity and spirit to rise above all of life's sorrows and challenges. Five Diamonds in the Pulpwood Queen Mandatory Tiara of great reads!” —Kathy L. Murphy, CEO and Founder of The International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation
“Like Milton’s Paradise Lost and Kerouac’s On the Road, Marilyn Kriete’s Paradise Road is an epic poetic trip. I was bewitched by the language from start to finish and hoping for more.” —Judy Kirkwood, award-winning writer and author of Prelude to a Divorce
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