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In the autumn of 2000, Hope Edelman was a woman adrift,
questioning her marriage, her profession, and her place in the
larger world. Feeling vulnerable and isolated, she was primed for
change. The Possibility of Everything is the story of the change
that found her. A chronicle of her extraordinary leap of faith, it
begins when her three-year-old daughter, Maya, starts exhibiting
unusual and disruptive behavior. Confused and worried, Edelman and
her husband make an unorthodox decision: They take Maya to Belize,
suspending disbelief and chasing the promise of an alternative
cure. This deeply affecting, beautifully written memoir of a
family’s emotional journey and a mother’s intense love explores
what Edelman and her husband went looking for in the jungle and
what they ultimately discovered—as parents, as spouses, and as
ordinary people—about the things that possess and destroy, or that
can heal us all.