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Going to the Sun
Seven years ago, Penny's boyfriend was savagely attacked by a bear, setting off a chain of tragic events. Now, fighting a debilitating illness and haunted by her past, she finds herself incapable of emotional or sexual intimacy. As a way to break down the defenses she has built up in her safe Chicago life, she sets out on a cross-country bike tour. On this trip she me...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
March 1st 2004
by Picador
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I read this book years ago when it first came out and absolutely loved it. The story has as many twists and turns as her cross-country bike ride to find herself and the ending will leave you breathless. I'm so happy to have rediscovered it here on Goodreads and am excited to read it again.
A travelogue about a woman on a cross country bicycle journey. Grizzly bear death, steamy sex with a basketball player... written by a man with really no sense of female experience. He should have written it with a male voice.
This book has everything from Beckett and bicycles, to dead boyfriends, epic journeys and grizzlies -- I read it straight through.
College graduate diabetic tries to ride her bike to Alaska to come to terms with her past. This book made me afraid of bears.
Wow. Full of twists and unexpected turns. I could hardly put it down.
Crazy bear attack scene in the beginning!
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A young single diabetic woman rides her bike from Chicago to Alaska partially to try and conquer her diabetous but also to put closure on a horrible incident that happened years before in Alaska. The moral of the story I think you can all agree on is "Life is a challenge! Keep going!"
Damned good. Bicycling, Sam Beckett references, a dead boyfriend. It has it all...
Loved it. That's all I have to say.
Unusual and haunting
Great story.
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