Crash Landing: The Long Road Home

A beautifully written memoir about how life's unexpected and potentially devastating detours lead to new roads, connections, and learning to follow the signs pointing home. As Liz Jansen approached her sixtieth birthday, she was driven to understand how the experiences of her German Mennonite ancestors, who'd arrived in Canada as Russian refugees almost a century earlier, had shaped her. Seeking answers, she got on her motorcycle and set off across the country on what she dubbed the Ancestor Trail--the places they'd lived as they established themselves in a new land. Three weeks into what she'd expected to be twelve to eighteen months on the road, she experienced a catastrophic crash that threatened to sideline her quest. Instead, the ensuing time of uncertainty and stillness led her deeper into her quest and an exploration of her cultural roots. The stalwart faith and community that had sustained her ancestors through perilous times, had terrorized and almost suffocated her, leading her into what she described as a life of mediocrity. Inherently, she knew that the answers to how those experiences had influenced her beliefs and life choices, lay in delving into her distant past. To move forward, she had to look back. During her recovery, she was able to come to terms with her failed marriage, career, and the choices that entrapped her. Understanding the expectations and beliefs that once stifled her, freed her. Crash Landing is a compelling, adventurous, and poignant personal narrative of healing, showing how the heart always knows the way home.

• | Author: Liz Jansen
• | Publisher: Trillium Wordworks
• | Publication Date: Dec 06, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1987853083
• | ISBN-13: 9781987853087