The Way Through The Woods: Mushrooming and Mourning

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When Long Litt Woon’s husband of 32 years died suddenly at work at age 54, the world as she knew it ended. Stupefied by shock and grief, she first sought solace in familiar realms of healing like yoga and meditation but found it unexpectedly in mushrooming. The Way Through the Woods is a unique, informative, surprisingly funny and deeply affecting memoir of finding hope after despair. “I went into the forest”, Woon says “And came out of my grief.”

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Long Litt Woon was born in Malaysia and is now an anthropologist and certified Mushroom Expert in Norway. She went to Norway in her youth as an exchange student, where she met and later married a Norwegian, Eiolf Olsen, settling in Oslo. The Way Through the Woods: On Mushrooms and Mourning is her first book.

Tory Shepherd is a senior columnist and State Editor at The Advertiser. Her first book, On Freedom, was published last June.

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