After her husband's unexpected death at fifty-four, Woon struggled to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years. Adrift in grief, she signed up for a beginner's course on mushrooming—a course the two of them had planned to take together—and found, to her surprise, that the pursuit of mushrooms rekindled her zest for life.

"Moving . . . Long tells the story of finding hope after despair lightly and artfully, with self-effacement and so much gentle good nature."—The New York Times