{"product_id":"willas-grove-9781799956389","title":"Willa's Grove","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou are invited to the rest of your life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree women, from coast to coast and in between, open their mailboxes to the same intriguing invitation. Although leading entirely different lives, each has found herself at a similar, jarring crossroads. Right when these women thought they'd be comfortably settling into middle age, their carefully curated futures have turned out to be dead ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sender of the invitation is Willa Silvester, who is reeling from the untimely death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. Yet as Willa mourns her losses, an impossible question keeps staring her in the face: So now what?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStruggling to find the answer alone, fiercely independent Willa eventually calls a childhood friend who happens to be in her own world of hurt--and that's where the idea sparks. They decide to host a weeklong interlude from life, and invite two other friends facing their own quandaries. Soon the four women converge at Willa's Montana homestead, a place where they can learn from nature and one another as they contemplate their second acts together in the rugged wilderness of big sky country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMunson, Laura:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Munson\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not The Story You Think It Is\u003c\/i\u003e, which chronicles her journey through her own midlife crossroads. Drawing from the striking response to her memoir, the essay version of it in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"Modern Love\" column, and her speaking events at women's conferences across the US, Laura founded the acclaimed Haven Writing Retreats and Workshops. After watching hundreds of people find their unique and essential voices under the big sky of Montana she calls home, Laura created Willa, the invitation, the friends, and the town to share what she has learned with people globally. Her work has been published and featured in many media outlets throughout the world. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50441389048082,"sku":"9781799956389","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_042e4e68-e6d1-42e1-90a1-3690cf4c2591.jpg?v=1729665399","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/willas-grove-9781799956389","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}