SOCIAL SCIENCES

I Promise Not To Suffer: A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail

by Gail D. Storey
Mountaineers Bks. Apr. 2013. 224p. ISBN 9781594857454. pap. $16.95. TRAVEL
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After quitting his job as a doctor, novelist Story's (God's Country Club) husband made plans to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, 2,663 miles from Mexico to Canada. Reluctant to be apart from him during the six-month journey and looking for answers to unresolved issues of her own, Storey joined her husband on a physically and emotionally challenging journey. Moving back and forth in time, she weaves stories of her childhood, her distant relationship with her mother, and her 17-year marriage through the humorous, warm, and sometimes harrowing narrative of her adventures on the trail as she faces down a mountain lion, makes new friends in the trail community, and tests the strength of her confidence in her marriage.
VERDICT Storey, who was featured on the cover of Library Journal in 1992 after the publication of her first novel, The Lord's Motel, has written an enjoyable and frank memoir that will appeal to those who have taken or want to take similar journeys, whether hiking or of the heart.
Reviewed by Linda M. Kaufmann, Massachusetts Coll. of Liberal Arts Lib., North Adams , Apr 15, 2013
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