Laughing at the Sky by Heidi Love

Please join us for a special event on Thursday June 20th featuring Heidi Love who will be discussing her memoir Laughing at the Sky: Wild Adventure Bold Dreams and a Daring Search for a Stolen Childhood. 

Overwhelmed by traumatic PTSD flashbacks a daring woman embarks on a five-year sailing odyssey to heal from her hidden past. Her quest is to reach the Bay of Virgins in French Polynesia and overcome a childhood scarred by violence and her mother’s madness. Sailing her fragile boat beyond remote archipelagos she searches for the final missing piece of her story. What she doesn’t realize is that in order to recover she must first break apart.

 A tribe of badass characters guide Heidi Love’s journey of self-discovery including a therapist who climbed to 24000 feet on Mount Everest; a spirited third gender leader of a matrilineal society; an outrageous Marquesan warrior and her risk-taking daredevil sidekick Dennis. For fans of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Tami Oldham Ashcraft’s Adrift this memoir powerfully illuminates the terror and triumph of a woman who risks it all on a life-threatening journey that will ultimately save her. Laughing at the Sky is a wild and true adventure of healing the emotional wounds of childhood trauma—to realize bold dreams.

Host or Publisher Longfellow Books