we all have moments in life when we are forced off the map. Sometimes it’s by choice, metaphorically stepping into uncharted waters (“Here Be Dragons” as the sixteenth-century globes claimed). Other times we get shoved there against our will by another person or by the Fates. But the stories in this book show us that when we dare to face the unknown, we usually discover that we have more grit and tenacity than we thought. And we often land in a place that we couldn’t even have imagined when we started out.
