One Year and a One-Way Ticket: Ditching My Mother's Five-Year Plan to Travel Solo SFF_Gift_Guide Winner of the Bard Fiction

Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W

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As Annie grapples with how to heal the gulf between her and her would-be sister and make room in her daughter's life for Jon

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One Year and a One-Way Ticket: Ditching My Mother's Five-Year Plan to Travel Solo SFF_Gift_Guide Winner of the Bard FictionWhat if the path you were meant to follow wasn't a path at all? At 23, Danika was determined to follow the plan: veterinary school, career, home, family just like her mother expected. But when a rejection letter derails everything, she buys a one way ticket to Sri Lanka, hoping a faraway escape will help her regroup. Instead, it unravels her carefully constructed identity and opens the door to something far more life changing. With no return flight