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Paula Makaikis is ashamed of her marriage. Driven out of their bedroom by Roger's compulsive hoarding, she has spent the past ten years sleeping downstairs on her husband's ratty couch. Distant and uninspired, Paula is more concerned with the robins landing on her office window ledge than her hard-earned position at the university.
Until a phone call changes everything.
A homeless Greek man is dying in a Queens hospital and Paula is asked to come translate. The old man tells her of his beloved dog, Fotis, who bit a police officer when they were separated. Paula has never considered adopting a dog, but she promises the man that she will rescue Fotis and find him a good home. But when Fotis enters her life she finds a companion she can't live without. Suddenly Paula has a dog, a brand-new Ford Escape, an eight-week leave of absence, and a plan.
So Fotis and Paula begin the longest drive of their lives. In northern Minnesota, something compels her to answer a help-wanted ad for a wildlife rehabilitation center. Soon Paula is holding an eagle in her hands, and the experience leaves her changed forever.
An inspiring story about fate, family, and healing, this novel explores what is possible when we cut the ties that hold us down and the heart is free to soar.
Traveling Light by Andrea Thalasinos is an inspiring story about fate, family, and healing.
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- Sales Rank: #439442 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-07-16
- Released on: 2013-07-16
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Smart, married, and thoroughly mired in the past, 50-year-old PhD Paula Makaikis lacks the personal power to admit her choices have left her quietly desperate after 10 years of sleeping on the couch while her hoarder husband locks himself in the bedroom every night. Paula’s Greek heritage and superior intellect make her the perfect director for NYU’s Center for Immigrant Studies. Yet she’s internalized the stultifying messages from her proudly Old World mother (“Stop with the education, already. Men don’t like too-smart women”) until her self-esteem has practically vanished. When a dog named Fotis (Greek for “light”) lands unexpectedly in her life, Paula impulsively abandons the city for points north. Synchronicity lands her a job at a raptor rehabilitation center in Minnesota, where her fractured heart and soul begin a long-needed process of healing. While Paula can be a difficult character to embrace due to her severe self-deprecation and paralyzing lack of decisiveness, Thalasinos’ unerring interpretation of the importance of the human-animal connection makes this a solid addition to the “follow your heart and finally set yourself free” category of feel-good fiction. --Julie Trevelyan
Review
“Destined to become a classic.” ―Susan Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of One Good Dog, on An Echo Through the Snow
“An historic, inspiring, and uplifting race to the finish.” ―Modern Dog on An Echo Through the Snow
“Compelling and evocative.” ―Patricia McConnell, Ph.D. author of The Other End of the Leash, on An Echo Through the Snow
“Powerful debut...stark, gorgeous prose and a timeless story of love realized, lessons learned, and paths taken.” ―Booklist (starred review) on An Echo Through the Snow
“Beautifully drawn and emotionally resonant.” ―Kirkus Reviews on An Echo Through the Snow
“An immensely readable story about how dogs heal us and lead us, sometimes through harsh cold and deep snow, to places of great beauty and safety.” ―Stacie Williams, Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on An Echo Through the Snow
“Delicate and vivid...an elaborate weaving of past and present.” ―Michelle Diener, author of In a Treacherous Court, on An Echo Through the Snow
About the Author
ANDREA THALASINOS, Ph.D., is a professor of sociology at Madison College. She is the author of An Echo Through the Snow, an inspiring novel that combines her longstanding passions for dogs, nature, and native peoples. Andrea lives and writes in Madison, Wisconsin.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Read it in a day and a half
By booklass
This product was given to me for my review.
I read Andrea Thalasinos book, Traveling Light, in a day and a half, which is hard to do with the interruptions in my life. I was really caught up in Paula's story, as well as the story of her mother, her husband, the dog, the birds....it was an unusual book. Paula was a sympathetic character without being a perfect one. I did not necessarily agree with all of her actions or decisions, but I still found her very likeable. I loved the sense of journey as she discovered herself, and I loved the developing relationship with her mother. The addition of her dog and animal rescue added elements that I've always had an affinity for, and I think Thalasinos covered the latter topic well without going overboard. I don't want to use the expression "chick lit" when describing this book because it seems to be over-used to mean any book with predominantly women characters that is not technically a romance; that said, the novel is about women and the threads that make friendships and relationships. There were no real villains and no real heroes, which made the story much more true to life. Paula was the axis around which the story revolved, and Paula was someone a lot of women could probably identify with. Simply put, it is a satisfying read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointed
By Kim Karas
I was looking forward to reading this book, many elements in the description were intriguing. After ten years of marriage to a hoarder, Paula is clearly not happy in her home life. She doesn't even consider that place to be a home or her marriage to be much of a marriage either. They sleep in separate rooms and her husband shows more attachment for his mountains of disorganized things than for his own wife. She didn't know this was what she was getting herself into because she never set foot in the place until just prior to their wedding. I am not sure quite how she stopped herself from running for the hills at that point? He swore that he would take care of it and they would have a proper home as soon as they were married. I would imagine she wanted to believe that but naturally it didn't turn out that way and Paula was ashamed to admit any of this to a single soul. If you are embarrassed to have anyone in your home you are going to appear distant and wind up cut off from people, these things contributed to Paula's unhappiness I'm sure. She didn't have the zeal for her work that she had in the past either. So a lot of things going predictably unwell and then a series of events that were anything but predictable took over her life. All of a sudden she is adopting a dog, moved by an odd sense of obligation. She then took off on an impromptu leave of absence from work and simultaneous road trip in her brand new car with the dog. Her husband was scheduled to be in Europe for a while for work so she seized the opportunity to do her own thing. He was aware and insecure about her intentions and her departure, but he had to go and could not force her to stay home or to join him.
I like the way the voyage came upon her and some of the things that happened along the way but I was disappointed because there was too much about the story that was unrealistic. Just one example, with no background or training she winds up working with injured wildlife. This is a job she randomly stumbles across while she was on her way to another destination entirely. There are bits that come together far too easily, also not realistic or even necessarily enjoyable to read. I didn't feel any connection to Paula or to her story, overall the book lacked depth and could have used some explanations in places there were none. On the bright side I did like Paula's mother as well as the dog. Family secrets are revealed and it's nice to see someone take a chance at mixing things up when they aren't happy in their life instead of just stewing in it miserably. Not enough positive to merit a recommendation. If possible I would give 2 1/2 stars. Could be more of interest to someone who appreciates the romance genre. There is a beauty in the descriptive element of the writing as opposed to plot content. Not for me.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Glad to Have Read It
By Dawn Killen-Courtney
A book by a Greek writer about a Greek woman is bound to have some Greek Goddess references, and this book does, but one that did not get mentioned was Arachne, the weaver, turned to a spider by Athena. This web weaving imagery kept coming back to me the further I read. Many strands of her story stood out for me: the dog aspect of course was the first; I love dogs and all sorts of tales about them. Inheriting the dog Fotis, begins a transformation and an understanding that moves back and forward in time. He serves as a connecting point to much else that transpires.Also certain circumstances in her marriage piqued my curiosity. I felt a conncection to her about some of that, and interested in her responses to earlier marital mistakes. I did marvel at the suddenness of her decision to leave not just a settled but a stuck life, so suddenly - but Fotis (which means "light" in Greek) may well have been that for Paula, she was following the light. And on they came into my home country and up into the North we Minnesota city dwellers are so enchanted with. I loved the immediacy of her writing, from the (to me) hysterically funny exchange with the New York cabbie, to the wrenching pathos of the revelations of what was really behind the questions that never got answered in her marriage. All this and more was well and easily it seemed, woven together by Ms. Thalasinos, a writer very sure of and intimate with her material. The web at the end has some open ends. Some may not like that, but I did. That wide open future is one she goes into with open eyes, and knowing this time she deserves the goodness she seems poised to receive.
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