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"""Powerful, Tender, and Smart."" Meredith Hall, New York Times bestselling author ""A Gorgeous Adventure Through Courage..."" Tessa Fontaine New York Times Editor's Choice author""I Was Moved and Deeply Affected By It. Brilliant!"" Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Lambda Literary Award-winning author ""Beautiful, Powerful, and Compelling."" Anna Mo�, World Literature Prize-winning author Overwhelmed by traumatic PTSD flashbacks, a daring woman embarks on a five-year sailing odyssey to heal from her hidden past. Her quest is to reach the Bay of Virgins in French Polynesia and overcome a childhood scarred by violence and her mother's madness. Sailing her fragile boat beyond remote archipelagos she searches for the final missing piece of her story. What she doesn't realize is that in order to recover, she must first break apart. A tribe of badass characters guide Heidi Love's journey of self-discovery, including a therapist who climbed close to 24,000 feet on Mount Everest; a spirited transgender leader of a matrilineal society; an outrageous Marquesan warrior, and her risk-taking daredevil sidekick, Dennis. Laughing at the Sky is an extraordinary true adventure of healing the emotional wounds of childhood trauma to realize bold dreams. For fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Tami Oldham Ashcraft's Adrift, Heidi Love's memoir powerfully captures the terror and triumph of a woman who risks it all on a life-threatening journey that will ultimately save her. More Advance Praise ""Few books have affected me as profoundly as Laughing at the Sky. Her true story of transcendence is white-knuckle gripping and achingly beautiful."" Nancy Crochiere, author ""It shimmers with courage, resilience, and inspiration."" Ashley Davis Bush, author With profound insights, she shines light on the difficult passage women take as they transmute a history of terror into a present filled with joy."" Mary Carroll Moore, bestselling author ""This beautifully written memoir is raw, difficult, and powerful, but uplifting."" Madeleine Black, award-winning author ""Laughing at the Sky is masterfully written and will touch readers in a profound way. It's a powerful page turner and the best adventure memoir I've read in years."" Liesbet Collaert, bestselling author"

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"""Heidi Love's story is compelling, exotic, and full of tension. She has lived a rare and very interesting life. Most importantly, she is an exciting writer. This is a powerful, tender, and smart book."" Meredith Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Without a Map and Beneficence ""What an incredibly powerful book. I was moved and deeply affected by it. It's clear Heidi Love has an important story to tell."" Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The Fact of a Body. ""Heidi Love's memoir Laughing at the Sky is a gorgeous adventure through courage, trauma, and the quests we take to make ourselves whole. Beautifully written, heartbreaking and heart-mending, this book will remind you what it is to be alive."" Tessa Fontaine, New York Times Editor's Choice author of The Electric Woman and The Red Grove ""... With exacting prose and profound insights, she shines light on the difficult passage women take as they transmute a history of terror into a present filled with joy."" Mary Carroll Moore, bestselling author of Last Bets ""Heidi Love distills her life in episodes shrouded in undertones that enhance their potency. Her writing is beautiful, powerful, and compelling."" Anna Moi, World Literature Prize holding author of The Butterfly Venom ""Laughing at the Sky is masterfully written and will touch readers in a profound way. It's a powerful page turner and the best adventure memoir I've read in years."" Liesbet Collaert, bestselling author of Plunge: One Woman's Pursuit of a Life Less Ordinary. ""Heidi Love's memoir is an intense, intimate look at trauma, healing, and the powerful journey between the two. As it weaves together a seafaring adventure along with a haunting past, it shimmers with courage, resilience, and inspiration."" Ashley Davis Bush, psychotherapist and author of The Little Book of Inner Peace ""Few books have affected me as profoundly as Heidi Love's memoir, Laughing at the Sky. Her true story of transcendence over childhood trauma via a daring five-year sailing journey to French Polynesia is white-knuckle gripping and achingly beautiful. It's a journey no reader should miss."" Nancy Crochiere, author of Graceland ""This beautifully written memoir is raw, difficult, and powerful, but uplifting."" Madeleine Black, award-winning author of Unbroken ""Author Heidi Love tells a story that too many of us relate to and too few of us have the courage to claim..."" - Lizbeth Meredith, award-winning author of Pieces of Me"

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Heidi Love is the author of Knowing Acts-Engage in Healing, a calming practice workbook for emotional balance. Knowing Acts is beautifully illustrated by Maine watercolorist Linden O'Ryan and endorsed by Anne Hallward MD, Founder and Executive Director of Safe Space Radio and former faculty member of Harvard Medical School. Heidi is the co-founder of social media and branding agencies, VONT and Ethos. She received her MBA and a Woman of Achievement Award from the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School, and has served on the boards of Safe Space Radio and the Maine Women's Fund. When she's not sailing the high seas or chasing wild dreams, she lives with her adventure-loving husband, Dennis, in Maine. You can find her at HeidiLoveAuthor.com.

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