A memoir chronicling the author’s 18-year struggle with an undiagnosed illness, exposing the failures of the medical system while reflecting on resilience, uncertainty, and the search for joy amid hardship.
 

Rachel Weaver is the author of the novel Point of Direction, which was chosen by the ABA in Spring 2014 as a Top Ten Debut and awarded the 2015 Willa Cather Award for Contemporary Fiction. Prior to earning her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, Weaver worked for the Forest Service in Alaska studying bears, raptors, and songbirds. She is on faculty at Wilkes University’s low-residency MFA program and at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She lives in Colorado.