The Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles: A Love Story [Paperback]

When Bloomberg journalist Mark Pittman suddenly died, his widow spent four summers driving 31,152 miles searching for answers.

In her fearless memoir,The Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles: A Love Story, author Laura Fahrenthold presents a moving portrait of marriage, motherhood and mourning as she captains a 1993 RV sprinkling her husband's ashes with their two young daughters and a stray dog in an epic quest for healing and understanding. Filled with insight and wit from a career in journalism, the story captures the family's adventures and misadventures, her deeply-layered love story, and her hilarious slice-of-life dispatches where the pink steering wheel becomes her spiritual GPS.“How do you get past grief? Laura Fahrenthold drove through it with her two daughters, facing down everything from a hungry alligator to a broken heart while scattering her beloved husband Mark Pittman’s ashes across North America—and then some. The story would be sad if it weren’t so hilarious. And hilarious if it weren’t so sad. In the end, they reconnect in eerie, unexpected and surprisingly moving ways.”
—Amanda Bennett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative journalist

“Laura Fahrenthold has constructed a jewel. We don’t die anymore; we pass.The Pink Steering Wheel Chroniclespasses all understanding and, in its courage, gives us life everlasting.”
—Tom Keene, editor-at-large for Bloomberg News and host of Bloomberg Surveillance

“The Pink Steering Wheel Chroniclesis beautifully written and profoundly moving. Read it and enjoy the ride!”
—Karen Duffy,New York Timesbestselling author ofModel Patient: My Life As an Incurable Wise-AssandBackbone

“In a memoir that is funny and heartfelt, Laura Fahrenthold lives with the grief of losing her husband—the love of her lil“W