Steph Jagger and Brianna Madia: In Conversation

Local memoirist Steph Jagger celebrates the paperback release of "Everything Left to Remember" with fellow memoirist of the open road, Brianna Madia, who joins with the paperback release of "Nowhere for Very Long".
About the books:
"Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains" is a heart wrenching and inspirational memoir about a woman and her mother, who is suffering from dementia, as they embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are.
An adventure full of horseback riding, hiking, and “tenting” out West quickly turns into one woman’s reflection on childhood, motherhood, personhood-and what it means to love someone who doesn’t quite remember the person she spent her lifetime becoming. A staggeringly beautiful examination of how stories are passed down through generations and from Mother Nature, Everything Left to Remember brings us the wisdom of who our memories make us under the constellations of the vast Montana sky.
"Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life" is Brianna Madia'a deeply felt, immaculately told story of exploration-of the world outside and the spirit within. A woman defined by motion, Brianna bought a beat-up bright orange van, filled it with her two dogs Bucket and Dagwood, and headed into the canyons of Utah with her husband.
However, pursuing a life of intention isn’t always what it seems. At times, it was downright boring, exhausting, and even desperate-when Bertha overheated and she was forced to pull over on a lonely stretch of South Dakota highway; when the weather was bitterly cold and her water jugs froze beneath her as she slept in the parking lot of her office; when she worried about money, her marriage, and the looming question mark of her future. But Brianna was committed to living a life true to herself, come what may, and that made all the difference.
"Nowhere for Very Long" is the true story of a woman learning and unlearning, from backroads to breakdowns, from married to solo, and finally, from lost to found to lost again . . . this time, on purpose.