A Song for the Road

A Song For The Road is a touching story about Miriam, a church musician whose husband and two teenaged twins were killed by a drunk driver a year ago. Still grieving, she has a hard time with the day-to-day aspects of her life. One day when cleaning out her daughter’s room, she finds out that she cre......more

ALL THE STARS for this beautifully told emotional story! Kathleen Basi’s debut hit me right in the feels and uplifted my heart. This is the story of one woman’s journey through grief, simultaneously heartwrenching and hopeful. Miriam Lost her husband and twin teenagers a year ago. She thinks she is......more

Miriam Tedesco, a choir director and pianist in a Catholic parish church in Atlanta, Georgia just got sent flowers by a ghost. There begins how her life starts to unravel. Her husband never misses an anniversary and just like clockwork, the bouquet of flowers arrive. But it’s been a year since the t......more

I read this many moons ago in manuscript form, but the story has stayed with me. A SONG FOR THE ROAD is a powerful, emotionally complex story about reconciling love with loss, and the healing power of music. When a grieving wife and mother claims a surprise gift from her deceased family—a cross-coun......more

A sad read that perhaps I was just not in the right mood for. Unfortunately for A Song for the Road, I had just read Minnie Darke’s The Lost Love Song a few days prior – a book that explored a similar theme of the power of music to bring people together – which I’ll admit could have affected my inte......more