Thirty-Thousand Steps: A Memoir of Sprinting toward Life after Loss

You can’t run from your problems forever.

Breakups, dead-end jobs, bumps in the road to adulthood—author Jess Keefe and her little brother Matt navigate them together as roommates, sharing late-night conversations and laughs. But when Matt’s heroin addiction comes roaring back after lying dormant for years, an overdose on a warm October night changes everything.

In the year that follows her brother’s death, Keefe tries to start over, but her grief and trauma keep her obsessed with the past....