Immersive Memoir Embraces the Extraordinary Power of the Human Spirit and The Transformative Nature of Love.
Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award Memoir Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award GriefGold Medal Winner of the Book Excellence Award Grief Bronze Medal Winner of The Living Now Award Inspirational MemoirFinalist of the USA Best News Award Autobiography
In the early hours of January 9, 2018, hefty rainfall combined with deforestation from the recent Thomas Fire unleashed a devastating debris flow in Montecito, California. The unimaginable event was responsible for 23 lives lost and cost 177 million dollars in property damage.
News of the mudslide that ravaged the unsuspecting community made national headlines. Among those headlines was the tragic story of the Cantin family.
Where Yellow Flowers Bloom chronicles the events leading up to and following the disaster that took the lives of Kim's husband David, their son Jack, and their dog Chester, miraculously, Kim and her daughter Lauren were somehow spared.
The book details Kim's journey of survival-from mourning her husband's death while recreating a life for herself and her daughter to following her intuition and receiving extraordinary support from her community to find Jack's remains. Her story is full of mysterious and awe-inspiring messages, signs, and synchronicities that prove reality is greater and kinder than we can conceive.
This is Kim's first book, and she hopes her story can show others, especially those affected by trauma and grief, the power of determination and resilience, and the importance of looking for positivity when it seems impossible to find. Yellow flowers grow in an unexpected place. Despite the magnitude of loss and grief, they help Kim to see beauty where there should be none. In the end, love found a way.
*****
A riveting account of love and perseverance...where kindness becomes intrinsically entwined with survival...
"Where Yellow Flowers Bloom" is brave, insightful -and harrowing...
[Kim] takes you from agonizing loss to true growth thanks to the blessings of human kindness...
For anyone enduring great loss, this book may be a touchstone for navigating the journey of healing and rebirth...
Her brave voice will have you grabbing your hankies in this gripping memoir...
A thoughtful and sensitive treatment of a tragic subject...
