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ust as life at its best is a journey toward meaning and truth, this memoir recounts one family’s quest to find where they belong, how they fit in aſter a tragic


loss rocked their perception of what life should be. Seek- ing a fresh start, the author, her husband, and their young sons relocated to the Netherlands. “We moved our lives, our belongings, our coffee mugs across the Atlantic, hop- ing to find a place that felt like home,” the author said. Instead, they found something unexpected: that the


home they were seeking didn’t exist. It evaporated along with the life they used to have, before Sierra died, when the young couple with three small children lived a life that held great promise. Tis memoir tells of the cascading events that fol-


lowed Sierra’s death as the family searched for a new defi- nition of home. Striving to fill in the blanks, they became pilgrims of the heart, finding it necessary to take measure of who they had become and what life meant to them in order to complete their journey. Tis is the story of how one family lost their place in the world and then found it again.


Peggy Sijswerda, M.F.A., writes for a variety of regional, national, and international magazines. Still Life with Sierra is her first book. Peggy lives with her family in


Virginia Beach. Email sijswerda@ hotmail.com for more information.


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