Can what looks like running away from grief and sadness actually be a way to heal? In “The Slow Road North,” writer Rosie Schaap chronicles her circuitous route from spending most of her life as a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to finding herself settling down far away in a small town in Northern Ireland. She finds solace in the people, the countryside, and establishes her place among new friends. The Associated Press' Mae Anderson says Schaap peppers her own story with snippets of Irish poetry, folktales and Irish history to illustrate how Northern Ireland’s nuanced relationship with grief helps her face her own.
