Finding Lily: A Memoir

David E. Kemp is professor emeritus of drama at Queen’s University.

Toronto-based Richard Clewes is an internationally recognized creative
director whose work has won prizes in the United Kingdom, the United
States, and Canada, as well as at the Cannes Advertising Film Festival.
Before launching his career in advertising, the author was a high-school
teacher in the Bahamas.

After his wife committed suicide, a grief-stricken and bewildered
Clewes left behind his familiar life and undertook a six-month
round-the-world journey that he hoped would offer both a physical and a
spiritual catharsis. Along the way he mailed illustrated postcards to
himself. These postcards juxtaposed with a chronicle of the events and
people he encountered on his trek across four continents, make up the
funny, sad, and ultimately moving record of a journey that started in
the deepest grief and ended not only with understanding but with
something akin to an uplifting experience.

Written without a trace of false sentimentality, this wonderfully
accessible memoir demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit in the
face of life’s darkest moments.