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A travelogue of grief, Out of the Dark resonates with any heart that has ever been shattered by loss or betrayal. After a tragic accident, Jeanne journeys through the worst any mother or wife might be asked to endure. A deeply moving portrait of courage, Elliott's memoir explores how the dark night of the soul can find passage through pain to a place of radiance and hope. A touching and beautifully rendered story. -Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan, author of A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Sons in Alaska, Canyons and Ice: The Wilderness Travels of Dick Griffith, and Our Perfect Wild: Ray and Barbara Bane's Journeys and the Fate of the Far North

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A beautifully rendered hero's journey and classic road trip story, Out of the Dark is one woman's passage from the known to the unknown as she drives not so much as away from, but into the embrace of, a painful reality that nothing could change. Told in prose as beautiful as sunlight in a dark Alaskan January that finally finds its way above the shadowy hills, Marian Elliott's third person memoir is a testament to the magnitude of love, the kindness of strangers, and the healing power of nature. -Sarah Birdsall, author of The Red Mitten, The Moonflower Route, and Wild Rivers, Wild Rose Marian Elliott's third person memoir, Out of the Dark, touchingly, and deftly, addresses the query: How did we get to this place and time in our lives? For the heroine, Jeanne, the road is sometimes pitted with obstacles but more often blessed with kindness; marred by delays yet propelled by good fortunate, tormented by lost but buoyed by love. Encompassing the entire narrative, from east to west to north, is the persuasive power of nature to restore and humble. Elliott's story is a beautifully written journey from sorrow to new beginnings. -Eric Wade, author of Squirrelland: Imagination and the Alaska Red Squirrel Marian Elliott's book, Out of the Dark, is a guide. It is a calm clear voice to accompany a survivor - for anyone who has been close to the stupefying loss of a child. The story is mostly a memoir but also a travelogue. There is wreckage. There is confrontation with meaninglessness. There is no promise of redemption. But finally, life among the living must be navigated in some way. Elliott journeys from New York through Canada and finally to Alaska. It is a narrative about living and a suggestion for the path to acceptance. -Lanning Russell, editor of Event Horizon and author of the blog Bumper Sticker Wisdom

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Marian Elliott was born in New York City and grew up in Brooklyn, NY and the Long Island suburbs before moving to Alaska when she was 42. When she retired from 35 years of teaching young children, she turned her time and energy to creative writing. Her short story, ""In Its Place,"" won first place for fiction in the Open to the Public category of the creative writing contest sponsored by the University of Alaska, Anchorage and the Anchorage Daily News. It was published in the May 2017 issue of We Alaskans and the November/December issue of Event Horizon literary magazine. She and her husband Dan divide their time between their home at their apple orchard in Wasilla, Alaska and their cabin in the foothills of the Talkeetna Mountains.

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