5,000 Miles: You Can't Outrun Shame

Part comeback story, part cautionary tale, 5,000 Miles: You Can't Outrun Shame traces the author's journey back to herself. Surrounded by the compelling mystery and lush beauty of Hawaii and punctuated at times in the self-deprecating style of a 50-something ChinaRican woman looking in the rear-view mirror, this debut memoir opens with a moment of reckoning. Anxiety and insomnia have landed the accomplished lawyer, wife, and mother in the one place she never thought she'd be.

In this tale of...