{"product_id":"a-different-kind-of-vow-rewriting-my-happily-ever-after-paperback","title":"A Different Kind of Vow: Rewriting My Happily Ever After - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaurie Collister\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet against the backdrop of vibrant 1980s LA, this wild and intimate debut memoir follows a young woman's quest for marriage, meaning, and lasting happiness.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt thirty-two, Laurie outgrows her sleepy beach town and moves to the epicenter of the anything-goes eighties: Los Angeles. There, she befriends a teenage wizard and a Russian defector. She enrolls in a Hogwarts-style psychic college. She gets a job at a hilltop Hindu convent, where she considers taking her monastic vows. She dates an Indian guru and shares heart-to-heart conversations with a Catholic priest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut it is only when her home nearly burns to the ground that Laurie finds what she is looking for: her true calling. Reading passages from a cache of 300 old diaries that were spared by the flames, Laurie locates clues planted in her past and gradually comes to a realization: She must let go of the conventional, \"white-picket fence\" marital vow she has sought for decades, and instead must fashion an entirely different kind of vow for herself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith this knowledge in hand, Laurie sets about fulfilling her sacred contract. In turn, she experiences for the first time an intense rightness--a sense that this is how her life is meant to be.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurie Collister\u003c\/b\u003e is a counselor, journalist, and debut memoirist. After graduating from Kenyon College, she worked as a litigation paralegal, market analyst, investigative journalist, and, most recently, as a counselor on LA's skid row. In this checkerboard of professions, she learned how to harvest the hidden key to penning \u003ci\u003eA Different Kind of Vow\u003c\/i\u003e. Her second memoir, about her fourteen years on skid row, will be published in 2027. Laurie lives with her extended family and dog Bella on a cul-de-sac in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 8.44 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53273632670003,"sku":"9798896361121","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/I6bqxoupsP9798896361121.webp?v=1776891214","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-different-kind-of-vow-rewriting-my-happily-ever-after-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}