A Clearing: Transcending Trauma

When Dawn drives away from her marriage in the middle of the night — her dog Loki riding shotgun, her cat Zena in the back seat — she has no map for the life she is about to build. Only the keys to a run-down cabin in the woods, a fierce, fragile hope, and two animals who never stopped believing in her even when she could not believe in herself.

A Clearing is the story of a woman who had been slowly erased — by fear, by control, by a decade of learning to make herself small — and the hard, q...