Overview
An irresistible, life-affirming novel about what happens when the life you planned falls apart—and how sometimes you have to lose your way to find yourself again.
At twenty-five, Davide thinks he knows exactly what his future holds. He has finished university, is about to begin his dream career as an architect, and is preparing to move in with Valentina, the woman he has loved for seven years. Then, one by one, his certainties collapse. The job disappears, Valentina leaves him, and a devastating loss leaves him unable to imagine a way forward.
Adrift and desperate for a change, Davide travels to Vietnam, where he meets Guilly, an irrepressible and unconventional traveler who seems to possess something Davide has lost: the ability to embrace life as it comes. Together they set off across the country by motorbike. Along the way, Guilly becomes a friend, mentor, and unexpected guide to a radically different way of seeing the world.
Slowly, Davide begins to understand that happiness doesn’t depend on achieving the perfect life, but on how we experience the life we have—on letting go of what we cannot control and remaining open to change.
Warm, funny, and deeply hopeful, Something Wonderful Always Happens is a moving story of loss and renewal, friendship and travel, and the courage to begin again.
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