Running Home: Book review

Book Review 

Title: Running Home
Author: Katie Arnold
Genre: Memoir

Running home is a beautiful memoir about how a woman takes up running to feel alive and overcome her grief of losing a parent. 

Katie Arnold is introduced to adventures and the outdoors through her dad who is a photographer for the National Geographic. After her marriage and motherhood, Katie ensures that she exposes her daughters to the outdoors too. 

However when her father loses his battle to cancer, Katie is plunged with post traumatic stress disorder and begins to question her own mortality. 

In order to overcome her anxiety and grief, Katie seeks solace in nature and running- a sport that her father introduced to her when she was 7 years old. Katie starts with an ultra marathon distance of 50 km, 50 miles and then 100 km amidst those mountainous trails and wilderness. 

As she clocks those miles which tests her endurance, Katie slowly learns to overcome her grief, pain and anxiety. In the meanwhile, she traces back her relationship with her father through some old letters and ultimately gains peace. 

Written in a poignant and moving manner, themes of grief, loss, parenting and healing are touched upon here. 

This memoir showcases how running as a sport can change lives. It gives a beautiful message  of how one can find ways to stay alive in a meaningful manner. It also stresses on the aspect of finding a balance between parenting and running. 

Running Home is book that will resonate with every runner especially those who run those inhuman distances. It is also bound to strike a chord with nature and adventure enthusiasts.

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