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The Worrier's Guide to the End of the World
Love, Loss, and Other Catastrophes--through Italy, India, and Beyond
2017
First Published
4.09
Average Rating
288
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Torre DeRoche is grieving the loss of the two most important men in her life—the partner of nine years who she's just broken up with, and her father, who's just passed away—when she crosses paths with Masha, a woman who has put her marriage on hold to pursue a dream of walking the world in order to try and make sense of it. When Masha invites Torre to join her on a pilgrimage in India, Torre embarks on a journey both physical and spiritual. It's an uncertain route full of danger—pollution, wild dogs, snakes, and men—but if they can survive uninjured the duo hope they'll absorb wisdom by osmosis and end the journey as two women who are fit, fearless, and ready to save the world. But nothing these two unlikely adventurers encounter is quite as terrifying as being 30-something women who have no clue about anything anymore. "Like so many of us, Torre DeRoche is wracked with fear, doubt, uncertainty, anxiety; unlike so many of us DeRoche figured she might as well walk 250 miles through India. Which she does, with humor, grace, insight and a fair amount of grit, too, in this lovely and wholly uplifting account of confronting our fears... Luckily (and always enviously) in The Worrier's Guide to the End of the World we get to tag along." —- Carl Hoffman, bestselling author of Savage Harvest "Torre's managed to write a witty and engrossing tale of loss, pain, and transformation that captivates the reader as magically as her first book. Like her previous work, I couldn't put it down! I highly recommend it!" —- Matt Kepnes, New York Times Bestselling Author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day "A moving account of conquering fears while walking a pilgrim's path. Also funny as f@#k." —- Janice MacLeod, author of New York Times bestseller Paris Letters

Avg Rating
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Author

Torre DeRoche
Torre DeRoche
Author · 3 books
Torre’s first memoir, LOVE WITH A CHANCE OF DROWNING, (Penguin ANZ) was optioned in Hollywood. Since then, her profile as a travel writer has continued to grow. Her blog, fearfuladventurer.com, has been profiled in NatGeo and was one of Viator’s Top Travel Blogs of 2015. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian Travel and alongside Cheryl Strayed, Dave Eggers and Sloan Crosley in the Lonely Planet travel writing anthology, An Innocent Abroad.
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