How I Learned to Stop Saluting Magpies

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lynn grew up believing that saluting magpies could keep bad luck at bay. But after a string of disasters-illness financial ruin divorce-she's forced to admit: the magpie magic isn't working. At rock bottom she turns to a lifeline-a list of treats and adventures she'd always meant to try but never quite got round to. As she slowly ticks them off what begins as a quest for distraction becomes something deeper. A train rattles across America. Flamingos flap. Secrets surface. There's clifftop terror. And step by step old fears inherited wounds and superstitions begin to loosen their grip-creating space for forgiveness of herself and of others. How I Learned to Stop Saluting Magpies is a funny thoughtful memoir about letting go moving on and inching-slightly suspiciously-toward joy.</span></p>