Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life

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Madia’s book is full of her vivid anecdotes and ramblings, each portrait of her experiences, as unusual and inspiring and unexpected as the last. I won’t give more away, but this down-to-earth and heartwarming memoir is the real-life inspiring story that you have been missing. Nowhere for Very Long is about getting lost and finding yourself along the way. It’s about wearing the go-go boots, swimming naked, and getting a third (or fourth) dog. It’s about falling in love and growing apart. It’s about trauma and fear and guilt and shame. It’s about letting go and living. It’s about healing your inner child. It’s about hope. To be inside those canyon walls was to be cradled in the arms of the earth itself. I felt hidden out there. Safe. As if I could just slip away and be carried off to rest among Indian paintbrush and coyote willow. Left there undisturbed, untouched. Buried somewhere in the sand like pottery.” But even the most beautiful stories can have tragic endings. They can also have beautiful endings. Though I suspect any story worth telling has a little bit of both.”

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All my life, I’d assumed it was only brave people who did brave things. I’d never once considered how many of them were absolutely terrified.” Brianna knew her road would be the one less traveled from an early age. Rejecting the competitive and capitalistic path set out before her, she chose to seek a different version of happiness, a road scary, uncertain, and entirely her own. But pursuing a life of intention isn’t always what it seems. In fact, at times it was downright boring, exhausting, and even desperate—when the van overheated and she was forced to pull over on a lonely stretch of South Dakota highway; when the weather was bitterly cold and her water jugs froze beneath her as she slept in the parking lot of her office; when she worried about money, her marriage, and the looming question mark of her future. But she was living a life true to herself, come what may, and that made all the difference. Many times I wanted to delete the app entirely, but it felt like people had bought shares in our lives. These people saved my dog's life. I felt I owed them my own in some ways.” Leave it to modern man to go out and decimate the natural world so they can display its remnants in their living room.” We simply traded a set of four walls for a set of four wheels on a Tuesday afternoon in September and the world spun on.”However, pursuing a life of intention isn’t always what it seems. In fact, at times it was downright boring, exhausting, and even desperate—when the van overheated and she was forced to pull over on a lonely stretch of Wyoming highway; when the weather was bitterly cold and the water jugs froze beneath her as she slept in the parking lot of her office; when she worried about money, her marriage, and the looming question mark of her future. But she was living a life true to herself, come what may, and that made all the difference. We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. —JOSEPH CAMPBELL” But I suppose that’s what they say about parents. They usually want their children to go out and become all the things they never thought to be, do all the things they didn’t think they could.” But if you are going to base purchasing a book off opinions than I hope that you base it off an unbiased one. With her true flare for writing this book will be more captivating than any social media post can be. I expect tears and happiness throughout.

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Madia is an excellent writer. You can’t ask more from a writer than to be as funny and honest as she is about her personal life, to be able to take a bad experience and laugh at herself in retrospect, to be truthful about not knowing what the hell she was—and is—doing half the time. But she did it anyway, trying and failing, and then trying again anyway. Her bravery shines through each pitfall. Never discredit the hard work of another regardless if you like them or not. In a day and age where bullying is so prevalent on the internet, I often wonder how the below would reviewers cope if the same happened to them and with their hard work.Well, I sobbed my way through this entire book, devouring it in just a few days. I've been anxiously awaiting this book's release ever since Brianna first shared the exciting news of the publication. I have followed Brianna's journey for years, so my review may be biased, but her writing is what drew me to her in the first place. She writes with a raw honesty and vulnerability that is both poetic and hauntingly beautiful. Brianna comes across as deeply human, as a woman who has accepted herself for her faults, her mistakes, her regrets, and her charms. The book screams, "Here I am, take me or leave me." She is unapologetically herself, which is something I deeply admire.

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The book hasn't be released yet, and the description is very deceitful for a social media influencer to be described as someone running away from capitalism.

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I believe the truth of how we become who we are is layered. Not like onions, but like earth. Traceable at the surface, but tumultuous beneath. Tectonic plates of our pasts shifting violently, or more often subtly, causing great rumbling disruptions in the identities we think we’ve mapped so well.” But depression, addiction, and suicide were a part of our stories as well; the more unspoken, unfortunate hallmark of those who can’t help but base the value of their existence on whether or not it is seen as beautiful or worthwhile.” It tastes like sunbaked earth that leads to a hidden spring that no one knows about but you. It smells like flowers growing wild and untamed. It sounds like howling at the moon. Find this title with Libby, the award-winning and much-loved app for local libraries, by OverDrive.

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In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life. This is simply another book written by an influencer. Keep expectations low if you choose to read, I think that was my mistake.I absolutely loved Madia’s memoir. Even Madia will admit that she is a highly flawed person, which makes her a fascinating subject for a memoir. I loved how she dived into her own motivations, parsing out why she made the choices she did, which helps connect her story to life at large. Her discussion about gatekeeping in the van life community and the ridiculous rules we force upon ourselves (and others) to truly “belong” to any community was extremely thought-provoking.