After college, Catharine H. Murray travels to Thailand, gradually outgrowing her American worldview. Within a year, she falls in love with a local man. Her life as a young mother seems too good to be true and she and her husband open a small inn for travellers. But when their middle son is diagnosed with cancer at age five their path takes them from rural Thailand, to Seattle, to Bangkok. With wisdom and honesty, the mother shares the transformative moment-to-moment experience of watching her son fight for his life, allowing the reader to witness the fathomless loss of a child and learn how tragedy can transform us.
