Where Yellow Flowers Bloom - by Kim Cantin (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Immersive Memoir Embraces the Extraordinary Power of the Human Spirit and The Transformative Nature of Love.

Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award Memoir Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award GriefGold Medal Winner of the Book Excellence Award Grief Bronze Medal Winner of The Living Now Award Inspirational MemoirFinalist of the USA Best News Award Autobiography

In the early hours of January 9, 2018, hefty rainfall combined with deforestation from the recent Thomas Fire unleashed a devastating debris flow in Montecito, California. The unimaginable event was responsible for 23 lives lost and cost 177 million dollars in property damage.

News of the mudslide that ravaged the unsuspecting community made national headlines. Among those headlines was the tragic story of the Cantin family.

Where Yellow Flowers Bloom chronicles the events leading up to and following the disaster that took the lives of Kim's husband David, their son Jack, and their dog Chester, miraculously, Kim and her daughter Lauren were somehow spared.

The book details Kim's journey of survival-from mourning her husband's death while recreating a life for herself and her daughter to following her intuition and receiving extraordinary support from her community to find Jack's remains. Her story is full of mysterious and awe-inspiring messages, signs, and synchronicities that prove reality is greater and kinder than we can conceive.

This is Kim's first book, and she hopes her story can show others, especially those affected by trauma and grief, the power of determination and resilience, and the importance of looking for positivity when it seems impossible to find. Yellow flowers grow in an unexpected place. Despite the magnitude of loss and grief, they help Kim to see beauty where there should be none. In the end, love found a way.

*****

A riveting account of love and perseverance...where kindness becomes intrinsically entwined with survival...

"Where Yellow Flowers Bloom" is brave, insightful -and harrowing...

[Kim] takes you from agonizing loss to true growth thanks to the blessings of human kindness...

For anyone enduring great loss, this book may be a touchstone for navigating the journey of healing and rebirth...

Her brave voice will have you grabbing your hankies in this gripping memoir...

A thoughtful and sensitive treatment of a tragic subject...

Review Quotes

"A gripping story of determination and resilience..." - Suzanne Giesemann, author of Still Right Here

"Her brave voice will have you grabbing your hankies in this gripping memoir." - Leslie Zemeckis, actress, filmmaker, author of Feuding Fan Dancers

"Where Yellow Flowers Bloom is brave, insightful -and harrowing." - Catherine Saillant, Southern California journalist

"A thoughtful and sensitive treatment of a tragic subject." -Kirkus Review

"A riveting account of the love and perseverance...where kindness becomes intrinsically entwined with survival." -D. Donovan, Sr. Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

"Readers will be in awe at how the unseen forces of kindness, intuition, synchronicities, and cutting-edge science come together and affirm that even when it seems darkest, light can find us all and shine. - Catherine Weissenberg, author of Beyond Ever After: A Heart-to-Heart Journey Through Death and the Afterlife

"She takes you from agonizing loss to true growth thanks to the blessings of human kindness" - Suzanne Giesemann, author of Still Right Here and Messages of Hope

Inspiration rises from this heart-wrenching story like treasured possessions and cherished memories painfully extracted from the Montecito mud...For anyone enduring great loss, this book may be a touchstone for navigating the journey of healing and rebirth. - Don Fergusson, author of Salmon to Siddhartha

"Cantin's language is raw....The mudslide that is the book's impetus lasted only a few minutes, but its effects linger." -Foreword Reviews

"Survivors with similar stories, as well as anyone with curiosity about the event or a woman with limitless strength, will find this book enthralling." -Blue Ink Review

"A highly charged, emotionally riveting account of survival and healing." -Dr. Gayle D. Beebe