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Universe I Trust You: A Month in Sri Lanka
Paperback
Biographies GeneralTravel WritingSoutheast Asia
ISBN13: 9781913501631
Publisher: Books Boost Business
Published: Jun 21 2022
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Second Place - The BookFest Awards, Spring 2023
Nonfiction - Journey - Travel - Self-Discovery and Travel Journal
What happens when a woman at a crossroads packs her rucksack, leaves her plans behind and decides to trust the Universe? For a start, she still has to deal with herself.
At 38, Roby is single, emotionally exhausted and wondering what comes next. Her life in London is full, yet something is missing. So she sets off alone on a three-month backpacking adventure through Sri Lanka, South India and Nepal, with an unusual travelling companion: the decision to stop trying to control everything.
Universe, I Trust You tells the story of the first month of that journey, in Sri Lanka.
With her journal, her sense of humour and no fixed itinerary, Roby discovers what happens when she makes room for the unexpected. Encounters with strangers, romantic and sexual adventures, cultural surprises and moments of doubt become opportunities to question old assumptions-and occasionally laugh at herself.
Will she feel lonely? Frightened? Bored? And can someone with so many unanswered questions really learn to take life one day at a time?
Through candid storytelling and self-deprecating humour, Roberta Mussato explores the fears that keep us standing still, the courage it takes to set off alone and the possibilities that appear when we loosen our grip on how life ought to unfold.
For women at a crossroads, curious travellers and anyone who has ever felt stuck, this funny, frank travel memoir offers companionship, food for thought and an invitation to discover what might happen next.
You don't have to have your life figured out to begin the journey.
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