Cantin’s powerful memoir, Where Yellow Flowers Bloom, is a heartfelt testament of a mother’s love and a wife’s devotion in the midst of sudden loss and trauma, with an enlightened perspective on mortality. Through her patience, perseverance and willingness to be open to help and to heal, she confirms love’s ability to connect and transcend beyond life.
In the dark, at 3:30 am, a thirty-foot wave of mud and debris crashes down on her home – with Kim’s family inside. Life changed in an instant. Most devastating, her husband and teenage son have been swept away to their deaths. Miraculously, Kim and her daughter survive the unimaginable.
Where Yellow Flowers Bloom, is the story of a wife and a mother’s journey through loss and grief and the redemptive power of love even through death. This book takes you on this mother’s fascinating journey to find her missing son as she follows her intuition, and becomes open to spiritual guidance and unmistakable synchronicities. Through tenacity and perseverance against insurmountable odds, Kim affirms that her husband and son are still with her.
This book is about hope. Despite the magnitude of loss and grief, yellow flowers grow in a place that they shouldn’t; this helps Kim see the beauty where there should be none. Indeed, Love found a way.