A Short Walk Through a Wide World [Audiobook]

Description

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the adventures of one woman as she walks herself around the world many times over trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she ever stops moving--or returns to the same place twice.Paris 1885: Aubry Tourvel a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later at the family dinner table she starts to bleed to death. When medical treatment only makes her worse she flees to the outskirts of the city where she discovers that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. So begins her lifelong journey on the run from her condition which wont allow her to stay anywhere for longer than three or four days or return to a place shes already been. From the scorched dunes of the Calashino Sand Sea to the blinding snow-packed peaks of the Himalayas; from a bottomless well in a Parisian courtyard to the shelves of an infinite underground library we follow Aubry through the decades of her life as she learns what it takes to survive and fall in love with goodbye always on the tip of her tongue. But the longer Aubry wanders and the more desperate she is to share her life with others the clearer it becomes that the world she travels through may not be quite the same as everyone elses... Fierce hopeful and full of tender yearning Aubry Tourvel is an unforgettable character fighting her way through a world of wonders to find a place she can call home. A spellbinding and inspiring story about finding gratitude and meaning in a life that seems otherwise impossible A Short Walk Through a Wide World reinforces the message that its not the destination but rather the journey--no matter how long it lasts--that matters.