The Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles
By Laura Fahrenthold
By Laura Fahrenthold
By Laura Fahrenthold
By Laura Fahrenthold
Category: Biography & Memoir
Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs
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$15.00
Jun 26, 2018 | ISBN 9781578267682
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Jun 26, 2018 | ISBN 9781578267699
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$15.00
Jun 26, 2018 | ISBN 9781578267682
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Jun 26, 2018 | ISBN 9781578267699
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Praise
âHow do you get past grief? Laura Fahrenthold drove through it with her two daughters, facing down everything from a hungry alligator to a broken heart while scattering her beloved husband Mark Pittmanâs ashes across North Americaâand then some. The story would be sad if it werenât so hilarious. And hilarious if it werenât so sad. In the end, they reconnect in eerie, unexpected and surprisingly moving ways.â
âAmanda Bennett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative journalist
âLaura Fahrenthold has constructed a jewel. We donât die anymore; we pass. The Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles passes all understanding and, in its courage, gives us life everlasting.â
âTom Keene, editor-at-large for Bloomberg News and host of Bloomberg Surveillance
âThe Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles is beautifully written and profoundly moving. Read it and enjoy the ride!â
âKaren Duffy, New York Times bestselling author of Model Patient: My Life As an Incurable Wise-Ass and Backbone
âIn a memoir that is funny and heartfelt, Laura Fahrenthold lives with the grief of losing her husbandâthe love of her life and her daughtersâ father. Her humor and buoyancy invigorate their familyâs unconventional approach to mourning and carry the reader forward with a faith that even a relationship cut short by death can continue to sustain us.â
âHeather Harpham, author of Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
âIncredible. A brutally honest, fast-moving and ultimately transcendent book about loveâs life after death.â
âDavid Fahrenthold, Washington Post reporter, 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner
âMost women, when they lose their husbands unexpectedly, are paralyzed by grief. Laura Fahrentholdâwhose award-winning journalist husband succumbed to a heart attack on Thanksgiving Eve, 2009âgot moving. With her two young daughters in tow, she decided to move forwardâliterally. She packed them all into an RV with a pink steering wheel and proceeded to drive across America and Canada, scattering her husbandâs ashes. The result? A journey of self-discovery and renewal, love and hope, punctuated with stops at Walmart and Costco. Go ahead: take the ride!â
âBarbara Hoffman, Arts Editor, The New York Post
âLaura Fahrenthold tackles grief and loss in the most American of ways, hitting the road in a camper with two kids, a dog and her dead husbandâs ashes. Courageous, brutally honest and observant, The Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles is a classic road story of love and healing. Itâs also laugh-out-loud funny.â
âBarbara Barker, Newsday
âLaura Fahrenthold takes us on the craziest memorial road trip ever as she scatters her husbandâs ashes around the country, her two daughters in tow. Her honest, moving, and often hilarious story makes for a sui generis grief memoir that will resonate with anyone who has had to start life over without a map.â
âJulie Metz, author of Perfection
âA brave, put-your-heart-back-together-again book thatâs a lesson for all not to hide grief in dark corners, but rather to take it on the open road to celebrate life.â
âValerie Frankel, author of The Accidental Virgin
âThe list of things weâre never taught about, but should be, is ridiculously long. Birth, marriage, taxes and death are a few of the biggies. Take a lesson right now from Laura Fahrenthold, on loss and grief, and how to move forward, not just with courage, but also with humour. Revel in it, remember it, pass it on, and when you one day have to find your way through it, youâll be just a little better equipped.â
âSue Fitzmaurice, author of Purpose
ââŠremarkable not just for how Laura handled her husbandâs sudden death, but for the journey she takes us on afterwards âŠ. A road trip of the heart. And a bright light for the road that lies ahead for all of us.â
âBill Ritter, WABC-TV Eyewitness News anchor
âOh, the comfort that comes from finding a cherished object that belonged to your loved one! Laura Fahrenthold brings readers inside the discovery of her late husbandâs secret journal, a journey that brings her solace, joy, even much-needed laughter. I found myself staying up way too late to finish this remarkable book.â
âAllison Gilbert, author of Passed and Present: Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive
âWith honesty and intimacy, Laura Fahrenthold recounts her love for her husband and her journey to spread his ashes after his untimely death. She gives parenting a capital âPâ as she teaches her children to adapt both on and off the road.â
âLibby Copeland, journalist for The Washington Post, Slate, and Esquire
âPrepare to go from laughing out loud to sobbing uncontrollably when you read Lauraâs chronicles. As the captain of a recreational vehicle she named HaRVey, she navigates a 31,000 mile healing grief journey across North America with a pink steering wheel as her spiritual guide. The Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles will undoubtedly become this yearâs âyou have to read itâ book club choice.â
âMike McNamara, CEO, Talent Blvd.
âLaura Fahrenthold tells the story of her husbandâs death with unflinching honesty and a sincere vulnerability that makes you want to reach through the pages to hug her. She uses those same skills to tell the story of his deathâs aftermath, loading her bereft daughters into a used RV and crossing North American to spread his ashes in all the places they felt heâd like to live, from scenic vistas and national monuments to a potted plant and an ice cream truck. Along the journey, she teaches us about grief, motherhood, humor and strength, revealing that such great loss can bring with it surprising gifts.â
âEllen Wulfhorst, Chief Correspondent, Americas, Thomson Reuters Foundation
âImagine a road trip with courage guru Brene Brown and Travels With Charley author John Steinbeck. The Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles is that book: an endearing, put-your-heart-back-together story of loss and hope that leaves you totally in awe of the human spirit.â
âRobyn OâBrien, financial and food industry analyst and author of The Unhealthy Truth
âThe Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles is proof that loss isnât just about endings but also, if youâre lucky, about beginnings. Laura Fahrenthold perfectly describes what Buddhists call a bardo, a transition from one state of being to another. She reminds us that new beginnings donât come for free, but they do come. You just need the courage to get behind the wheelâŠand drive your way through it, one sprinkle of ashes at a time.â
âDean Starkman, author of The Watchdog That Didnât Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism
âMost people would just as soon drown in a pool of grief and self-pity after the unexpected death of a spouse. This author isnât most people. She chose reframe her remarkable husbandâs worldly end into a fantastical adventure and beautiful celebration of notable life in a most extraordinary and unconventional way. We should all be so bold.â
âTara Wood, humor writer, social media influencer
âFor anyone who needs a road map with which to navigate heartache, this book is it. Laura Fahrenthold shows with laudable humor and compelling honesty that sometimes all it takes is an open heart, an adventurous spirit, two willing daughters, and an RV with a pink steering wheel to get there.â
âHelaine Olen, author of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry and co-author of The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesnât Have to be Complicated
ââRV there yet?â The Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles is the ultimate RV road trip. Reeling from the traumatic death of her beloved husband, journalist Laura Fahrenthold embraces her grief, packs up the kids, the dogâand her husbandâs ashesâand hits the road. Follow Lauraâs brave, heartwarming, and humorous journey across Canada and beyond, one adventureâand misadventureâat a time. A quintessential tribute to a life well-lived, and a husband well-loved.â
âSandy Allen, Canadian Blog House
âFahrentholdâs brutal honesty in the book is bolstered by a sarcastically wicked inner monologue that brings humor even to her most morbid thoughts and makes for an experience-packed adventure.â
âJena Butterfield, WAG Magazine
ââŠhandles an emotional and challenging subject matter in a frank, often funny, way. Its guiding principle seems to be honesty.â
âMaddie Monroe, Toronto Beauty Reviews