BRAVER THAN YOU THINK

Copyright © 2020 by Maggie Downs

First hardcover edition: 2020

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Braver Than You Think is a work of nonfiction. Events have been reconstructed from notes, blog posts, personal journal entries, and my own subjective memory. Some names and other identifying characteristics have been changed to protect privacy. In some instances, I compressed time, removed people, and skipped over locations. (For the latter, I apologize to the entire country of Laos. I was very happy there.)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Downs, Maggie, author.

Title: Braver than you think : around the world on the trip of my (mother’s) lifetime / Maggie Downs.

Description: First hardcover edition. | Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2020.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019030639 | ISBN 9781640092921 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781640092938 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Downs, Maggie—Travel. | Downs, Maggie—Family. | Voyages around the world. | Backpacking. | Alzheimer’s disease—Patients—Family relationships. | Terminally ill parents—United States. | Mothers and daughters—United States. | Parent and adult child—United States. | Women authors— Biography. | Authors, American—21st century—Biography.

Classification: LCC G440.D74 A3 2020 | DDC 910.4/1092 [B]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019030639

Jacket design by Sarah Brody

Book design by Jordan Koluch

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