A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing--hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love married and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolfs unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling 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 beginners 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. The Way Through the Woods tells the story of parallel journeys: an inner one through the landscape of mourning and an outer one into the fascinating realm of mushrooms--resilient adaptable and essential to natures cycle of death and rebirth.