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When Tara Caimi was twenty-eight years old, she moved from Pennsylvania to Utah to support her boyfriend’s dog mushing dream. Nick was confident and courageous, outgoing and adventurous—everything Tara was not. Tara had always suffered from anxiety-related ailments, but in Utah her health steadily deteriorated. Living with Nick revealed some unexpected lifestyle differences, and the culture she encountered rendered her a perpetual outsider. The only comfort she found was in her surrogate family of sled dogs. As personal failures piled up amidst desperate feelings of isolation, her health declined to a point she could no longer ignore. Mush is the story of Tara’s journey toward someone else’s dream and the lifesaving self-discovery it revealed. Tara Caimis Mush does not pretend. Its an unsparing memoir, written with seductive honesty and few favours paid to the writers ego. Caimis story picks its way through the half-lit valleys of her wilderness years, as she follows a dream not her own. This is the sort of truth that plenty of us spend our lives avoiding, but she tackles it with a workmanlike lack of sentimentality. Caimi is a likeable and refreshing narrator whose prose allows the reader space to reflect. — Liz Ann Bennett, editor and publisher of Oh Comely magazine One of the things I admire most about Tara Caimi’s memoir Mush is what it is not. Mush follows Tara’s life as it slowly spins out of control and she’s sucked into a downward spiral of disappointment, stress, and physical illness that nearly kills her. But Tara is a survivor. She lives to write about the whole mess—with candor and with only the best intentions. Without bitterness, self-pity, and negativity. Mush is not another “poor-me” memoir.— Sara Pritchard, author of Help Wanted: Female Adventuring does not come easily to us all, as we learn by followin
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