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Where Yellow Flowers Bloom: A True Story of Hope through Unimaginable Loss
Immersive Memoir Embraces the Extraordinary Power of the Human Spirit and The Transformative Nature of Love.
Bronze Medal Winner in The Living Now Book Awards in the Inspirational Memoir - Female Category!
In the early hours of January 9, 2018 unusually heavy rainfall combined with deforestation from the recent Thomas Fire and unleashed a devastating debris flow in Montecito, California. The unimaginable event was responsible for 23 deaths and cost $177 million in property damage. News of the mudslide that ravaged the unsuspecting community made national headlines. Among those headlines was the tragic story of the Cantin family.
Where Yellow Flowers Bloom chronicles the events leading up to and following the disaster that took the lives of Kim’s husband David, their son Jack, and their dog Chester. Miraculously, Kim and her daughter Lauren were somehow spared. The book details Kim’s journey of survival—through mourning her husband’s death while recreating life for herself and her daughter, to following her intuition and receiving extraordinary support from her community to find Jack’s remains. Her story is full of mysterious and awe-inspiring messages, signs, and synchronicities that prove reality is greater and kinder than we can conceive.
"The dark, thick slime seeped in under our doors. The muddy water came up through the bottom of our front walls and front doors. I looked down at Chester, lying on the floor near my feet. I told him, “Let’s go!” But he tilted his head and looked up at me hauntingly as he lay on the carpet. Chester did not move. He seemed to know there was no escape. I heard a horrifying, unfamiliar noise that sounded as if I were standing under the walkway of Niagara Falls. Like the roar of an oncoming train, mere inches away.”
This is Kim’s first book, and she hopes her story can show others, especially those affected by trauma and grief, the power of determination and resilience, and the importance of looking for positivity when at times it seems impossible to find.
Yellow flowers grow in an unexpected place. Despite the magnitude of loss and grief, they help Kim to see beauty where there should be none. In the end, love found a way.
Bronze Medal Winner in The Living Now Book Awards in the Inspirational Memoir - Female Category!
In the early hours of January 9, 2018 unusually heavy rainfall combined with deforestation from the recent Thomas Fire and unleashed a devastating debris flow in Montecito, California. The unimaginable event was responsible for 23 deaths and cost $177 million in property damage. News of the mudslide that ravaged the unsuspecting community made national headlines. Among those headlines was the tragic story of the Cantin family.
Where Yellow Flowers Bloom chronicles the events leading up to and following the disaster that took the lives of Kim’s husband David, their son Jack, and their dog Chester. Miraculously, Kim and her daughter Lauren were somehow spared. The book details Kim’s journey of survival—through mourning her husband’s death while recreating life for herself and her daughter, to following her intuition and receiving extraordinary support from her community to find Jack’s remains. Her story is full of mysterious and awe-inspiring messages, signs, and synchronicities that prove reality is greater and kinder than we can conceive.
"The dark, thick slime seeped in under our doors. The muddy water came up through the bottom of our front walls and front doors. I looked down at Chester, lying on the floor near my feet. I told him, “Let’s go!” But he tilted his head and looked up at me hauntingly as he lay on the carpet. Chester did not move. He seemed to know there was no escape. I heard a horrifying, unfamiliar noise that sounded as if I were standing under the walkway of Niagara Falls. Like the roar of an oncoming train, mere inches away.”
This is Kim’s first book, and she hopes her story can show others, especially those affected by trauma and grief, the power of determination and resilience, and the importance of looking for positivity when at times it seems impossible to find.
Yellow flowers grow in an unexpected place. Despite the magnitude of loss and grief, they help Kim to see beauty where there should be none. In the end, love found a way.
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304 pages, Paperback
Published March 25, 2023
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May 9, 2023
Over the past two decades, I have reviewed eight books written by female authors sharing their process of grief and their inspiring journey to hope. In most of these stories, their loss is that of a teenage child. As a father of three adult children, I cannot begin to fathom the depth of pain that comes with losing a child. As fate would have it, I spent the day before I began this review with two mothers who lost their teenage children—one to drowning and one to murder. In the latter case, her daughter—a star in the classroom and on the soccer field—became addicted to opioids after back surgery when she was sixteen, beginning a descent into illegal drug use in a world of ruthless people who, several years later, lured, tortured, and killed her before leaving her body by the side of the road. Their journeys are profound and vastly different. The former was lost in a haze of prescription medications until she met the second, who started a foundation to help those experiencing trauma and loss.
Kim Cantin lost not only her 17-year-old son Jack but her husband Dave in a living nightmare in the form of a mudslide on January 9, 2018, during California’s Thomas Fire—a mudslide that wreaked havoc for 30 square miles. Her 14-year-old daughter, Lauren, who survived, was buried alive for more than six hours. Kim and Lauren both sustained serious, frightening injuries.
The book begins three months before that tragic night, introducing us to a family of four that is truly enviable in their personal success, familial love, and attitudes of giving and charity for their community. The pictures that grace this opening chapter—and those placed throughout the book—work with Kim’s frank, first-person text to paint a portrait that will bring a tear to the eye of even the most heart-hardened, whether the photos are of special family moments or of the boulders that obliterated their home and their lives. We follow the foursome through the holidays, a time of reflection and preparation for what should be a bright future full of abundant happiness for them all.
Then the mud and water invade.
I deeply admire Kim Cantin for revisiting these events in the detail that she does. Although writing has been proven efficacious in healing trauma, the author goes far beyond the act of journaling or letter-writing, selfishly giving of her heart and soul by reliving these experiences moment by moment, allowing us to have the slightest glimpse of the nightmare that unfolded that awful January night.
I must also acknowledge Lauren. She has provided a multi-page first-person description of what she went through the night of the mudslide, which adds invaluable additional perspective to the events and their aftermath, all the more profound because of her youth.
Take a moment if you will to reflect on the mudslide itself—including all of its tremendous devastation—and all that Kim and Lauren went through. They are in the hospital, their eyes scratched, their throats parched, their bodies bruised and battered, when they receive the news that David was killed by the mudslide (his body found more than a mile from their house) and 17-year-old Jack is missing.
How many people in their position would have simply given up? Because, quite honestly, how does one begin to find the resolve to carry on after they, in a single evening, lose literally everything—including the beloved family dog? How does one begin to accomplish that?
Kim and Lauren identify multiple pathways, and their ability to heal (physically and psychologically), to plan funeral and memorial services, to rebuild their lives, to see Lauren achieve accolades for her impressive vocal talents, and, central to this story, undertake an unrelenting search for Jack’s body, are both inspiring and a reminder of the best that humans can be.
So never mind that age-old question of why communities only come together in tragedy… Let us, through Where Yellow Flowers Bloom, celebrate that, when they do come together, miraculous things occur.
As a lifelong performer and 33-year teacher, director, playwright, and mentor for young performers and writers, I can state with authority that the healing power of the Arts is profound. I see Lauren’s love of musical theatre and her journey to healing through performance—which involved singing for thousands of people (including Kenny Loggins) in numerous impressive venues—as a beacon of hope for countless teenagers looking for a place to call their own, as I did decades ago.
More than half the book is devoted to Kim’s relentless search for Jack’s remains. This is truly a case of using every resource in fulfilment of a mission—including people and techniques that go against one’s zeitgeist. Not only does Kim marshal emergency services, celebrities like Loggins and Rob Lowe, search and rescue, public works, private contractors, and local universities and doctors—she opens her heart to the information and offers of assistance from psychics and those whom Jack uses to get her messages. Some of these people are as confused and uncomfortable in delivering them as Kim is to receive them.
My wife and daughter possess these psychic gifts. My wife and I assisted the mother mentioned above whose daughter was murdered in communicating with her to receive information about the crime and its perpetrators. The message my wife received four years ago from her at the place where her body was found—“I am fine, this site means nothing to me, I left my body before I was brought there, do not despair”—is virtually the same as the ones Kim receives from Jack.
What ensues in Kim’s case is a three-plus-year journey (with her Sacred Search Team), amassing clues, weathering dead ends and close calls, and recovering bits and pieces of the Cantins’ pre-mudslide lives. As the chapters unfold, they locate Jack’s teddy bear and Superman action figure and costume (the latter apropos of his community service), Dave’s decades-old artwork, a quilt Kim made with silhouettes of Dave and Jack, a porcelain train ornament with Dave’s name on it (one of a set of four), and Jack’s ultrasound images. Are you sensing a divine hand in all of this? I am.
Readers familiar with the Japanese art of Kintsugi and its practice as a means of acknowledging trauma will be especially interested in a wooden pig figurine discovered during the search.
To tell you any more would be to spoil your journey, which, out of respect for Kim, Lauren, Dave, and Jack, I leave for you to undertake. There are triumphs and setbacks as the mission reaches its climax, and Kim’s reflections on the journey are vital lessons that all of us can employ.
Fitting for the spirit of community embodied in the aftermath of the fires and mudslide of 2017 and 2018, the book concludes with an In Memory page of those who died in these events. Dave and Jack are listed alphabetically among the 22 others, which speaks volumes about the Cantins and who they were and are.
In a world going ever more awry, books such as Where Yellow Flowers Bloom—the title’s meaning waits for you to find it—provide a candle in the darkness, shelter from the wind, and a loving hand on the center of your back when you’re feeling alone. Tragedy and loss give us our humanity, but community gives our humanity its fullest meaning, purpose, and expression.
Kim Cantin lost not only her 17-year-old son Jack but her husband Dave in a living nightmare in the form of a mudslide on January 9, 2018, during California’s Thomas Fire—a mudslide that wreaked havoc for 30 square miles. Her 14-year-old daughter, Lauren, who survived, was buried alive for more than six hours. Kim and Lauren both sustained serious, frightening injuries.
The book begins three months before that tragic night, introducing us to a family of four that is truly enviable in their personal success, familial love, and attitudes of giving and charity for their community. The pictures that grace this opening chapter—and those placed throughout the book—work with Kim’s frank, first-person text to paint a portrait that will bring a tear to the eye of even the most heart-hardened, whether the photos are of special family moments or of the boulders that obliterated their home and their lives. We follow the foursome through the holidays, a time of reflection and preparation for what should be a bright future full of abundant happiness for them all.
Then the mud and water invade.
I deeply admire Kim Cantin for revisiting these events in the detail that she does. Although writing has been proven efficacious in healing trauma, the author goes far beyond the act of journaling or letter-writing, selfishly giving of her heart and soul by reliving these experiences moment by moment, allowing us to have the slightest glimpse of the nightmare that unfolded that awful January night.
I must also acknowledge Lauren. She has provided a multi-page first-person description of what she went through the night of the mudslide, which adds invaluable additional perspective to the events and their aftermath, all the more profound because of her youth.
Take a moment if you will to reflect on the mudslide itself—including all of its tremendous devastation—and all that Kim and Lauren went through. They are in the hospital, their eyes scratched, their throats parched, their bodies bruised and battered, when they receive the news that David was killed by the mudslide (his body found more than a mile from their house) and 17-year-old Jack is missing.
How many people in their position would have simply given up? Because, quite honestly, how does one begin to find the resolve to carry on after they, in a single evening, lose literally everything—including the beloved family dog? How does one begin to accomplish that?
Kim and Lauren identify multiple pathways, and their ability to heal (physically and psychologically), to plan funeral and memorial services, to rebuild their lives, to see Lauren achieve accolades for her impressive vocal talents, and, central to this story, undertake an unrelenting search for Jack’s body, are both inspiring and a reminder of the best that humans can be.
So never mind that age-old question of why communities only come together in tragedy… Let us, through Where Yellow Flowers Bloom, celebrate that, when they do come together, miraculous things occur.
As a lifelong performer and 33-year teacher, director, playwright, and mentor for young performers and writers, I can state with authority that the healing power of the Arts is profound. I see Lauren’s love of musical theatre and her journey to healing through performance—which involved singing for thousands of people (including Kenny Loggins) in numerous impressive venues—as a beacon of hope for countless teenagers looking for a place to call their own, as I did decades ago.
More than half the book is devoted to Kim’s relentless search for Jack’s remains. This is truly a case of using every resource in fulfilment of a mission—including people and techniques that go against one’s zeitgeist. Not only does Kim marshal emergency services, celebrities like Loggins and Rob Lowe, search and rescue, public works, private contractors, and local universities and doctors—she opens her heart to the information and offers of assistance from psychics and those whom Jack uses to get her messages. Some of these people are as confused and uncomfortable in delivering them as Kim is to receive them.
My wife and daughter possess these psychic gifts. My wife and I assisted the mother mentioned above whose daughter was murdered in communicating with her to receive information about the crime and its perpetrators. The message my wife received four years ago from her at the place where her body was found—“I am fine, this site means nothing to me, I left my body before I was brought there, do not despair”—is virtually the same as the ones Kim receives from Jack.
What ensues in Kim’s case is a three-plus-year journey (with her Sacred Search Team), amassing clues, weathering dead ends and close calls, and recovering bits and pieces of the Cantins’ pre-mudslide lives. As the chapters unfold, they locate Jack’s teddy bear and Superman action figure and costume (the latter apropos of his community service), Dave’s decades-old artwork, a quilt Kim made with silhouettes of Dave and Jack, a porcelain train ornament with Dave’s name on it (one of a set of four), and Jack’s ultrasound images. Are you sensing a divine hand in all of this? I am.
Readers familiar with the Japanese art of Kintsugi and its practice as a means of acknowledging trauma will be especially interested in a wooden pig figurine discovered during the search.
To tell you any more would be to spoil your journey, which, out of respect for Kim, Lauren, Dave, and Jack, I leave for you to undertake. There are triumphs and setbacks as the mission reaches its climax, and Kim’s reflections on the journey are vital lessons that all of us can employ.
Fitting for the spirit of community embodied in the aftermath of the fires and mudslide of 2017 and 2018, the book concludes with an In Memory page of those who died in these events. Dave and Jack are listed alphabetically among the 22 others, which speaks volumes about the Cantins and who they were and are.
In a world going ever more awry, books such as Where Yellow Flowers Bloom—the title’s meaning waits for you to find it—provide a candle in the darkness, shelter from the wind, and a loving hand on the center of your back when you’re feeling alone. Tragedy and loss give us our humanity, but community gives our humanity its fullest meaning, purpose, and expression.
May 9, 2023
Incredibly written book.
I was emotionally involved throughout Kim's book. I have never been so moved about a book. Congratulations to all involved. My love of Santa Barbara is forever sealed with this amazing story of true love and perseverance. Thank you for your love
I was emotionally involved throughout Kim's book. I have never been so moved about a book. Congratulations to all involved. My love of Santa Barbara is forever sealed with this amazing story of true love and perseverance. Thank you for your love
April 9, 2023
an amazing story of strength in the face of incredible events and loss
This is the author’s personal experience with an immeasurable loss in Montecito, her search for her son’s remains, her search for closure and the will to move on as she and her daughter have a lifetime of healing and keeping a strong faith when others might have lost faith in God. A very good read for any one.
This is the author’s personal experience with an immeasurable loss in Montecito, her search for her son’s remains, her search for closure and the will to move on as she and her daughter have a lifetime of healing and keeping a strong faith when others might have lost faith in God. A very good read for any one.
March 31, 2023
A moving story about loss, never giving up and love. Kim Cantin and her daughter survived a horrible tragedy when the hills of Montecito consumed their home. Kim’s husband and son did not. Kim tells us of her grief, her long search for the remains of her son and finding hope and peace. It is a beautifully written testament to love. And faith.
April 18, 2025
🌼 Where Yellow Flowers Bloom by Kim Cantin
Genre: Memoir
Themes: Grief, survival, hope, community, healing, love, synchronicity
💛 Uplifting, Unimaginable, Unforgettable
On the night of January 9, 2018, a catastrophic mudslide devastated Montecito, California. Triggered by heavy rains and the aftermath of the Thomas Fire, this natural disaster claimed 23 lives and left behind unthinkable damage. Among the victims was most of the Cantin family: Kim’s beloved husband David, their 17-year-old son Jack, and their dog Chester. In a stunning twist of fate, Kim and her daughter Lauren survived.
Where Yellow Flowers Bloom is Kim Cantin’s breathtaking memoir of that night—and everything that came after. It is a raw, deeply honest, and soul-stirring journey through unrelenting heartbreak, miraculous survival, and the quiet beauty of healing.
💬 What to Expect:
• An intimate portrait of a family’s love and loss, shared through heartfelt memories, treasured photos, and haunting details of a tragedy that made national headlines.
• A dual narrative of survival—both Kim’s and her daughter Lauren’s—told with astonishing vulnerability, including Lauren’s own first-person account of being buried alive.
• A mother’s mission: More than half the book follows Kim’s tireless, years-long search to find Jack’s remains—using not only conventional resources, but embracing messages and signs that transcend logic.
• A community’s compassion—from neighbors to celebrities, rescue workers to psychics, this book is also about what happens when humanity shows up in full force.
🌻 Why This Book Moved Me:
• Courage in every chapter. Kim revisits the darkest hours of her life not just to remember, but to light the way for others navigating trauma and grief.
• Unflinching detail meets unbreakable spirit. Through battered bodies, broken hearts, and an ocean of uncertainty, Kim and Lauren show us what resilience really looks like.
• Signs and synchronicities. Whether you believe in the mystical or not, it’s impossible not to be touched by the meaning woven through every recovered item and every message Kim receives.
• A sacred search. From Superman figurines to Jack’s baby ultrasound, each discovery feels like a message from beyond—and a stitch in the healing fabric of grief.
🌺 TROPES:
• Found family (community support)
• Spiritual signs from the beyond
• Grief transformed into purpose
• Mother-daughter bond
• The enduring power of love
• Perseverance vs. closure
❤️ Final Thoughts
This memoir is not just about surviving the unimaginable—it's about choosing to keep going. It’s about listening to your heart even when logic fails, opening yourself to help even when grief makes you want to shut down, and following whispers of hope through the rubble of despair.
Kim Cantin’s story is a reminder that tragedy doesn’t define us—what we do with it does. This isn’t just a memoir. It’s a tribute, a map through loss, and a powerful testament to how light can rise from even the darkest places.
📝 Takeaways:
• Grief is not linear, and healing is not a destination—it’s a daily decision.
• Love, in all its forms, can transcend even death.
• When community comes together, miracles happen.
• We are stronger than we know, especially when we don’t have a choice.
📚 Recommended for:
Anyone healing from loss. Anyone searching for hope. Anyone who believes that, sometimes, the universe does speak to us—if we’re willing to listen.
🌟 Rating: 5/5 Unforgettable. Unmissable. Unmatched.
Genre: Memoir
Themes: Grief, survival, hope, community, healing, love, synchronicity
💛 Uplifting, Unimaginable, Unforgettable
On the night of January 9, 2018, a catastrophic mudslide devastated Montecito, California. Triggered by heavy rains and the aftermath of the Thomas Fire, this natural disaster claimed 23 lives and left behind unthinkable damage. Among the victims was most of the Cantin family: Kim’s beloved husband David, their 17-year-old son Jack, and their dog Chester. In a stunning twist of fate, Kim and her daughter Lauren survived.
Where Yellow Flowers Bloom is Kim Cantin’s breathtaking memoir of that night—and everything that came after. It is a raw, deeply honest, and soul-stirring journey through unrelenting heartbreak, miraculous survival, and the quiet beauty of healing.
💬 What to Expect:
• An intimate portrait of a family’s love and loss, shared through heartfelt memories, treasured photos, and haunting details of a tragedy that made national headlines.
• A dual narrative of survival—both Kim’s and her daughter Lauren’s—told with astonishing vulnerability, including Lauren’s own first-person account of being buried alive.
• A mother’s mission: More than half the book follows Kim’s tireless, years-long search to find Jack’s remains—using not only conventional resources, but embracing messages and signs that transcend logic.
• A community’s compassion—from neighbors to celebrities, rescue workers to psychics, this book is also about what happens when humanity shows up in full force.
🌻 Why This Book Moved Me:
• Courage in every chapter. Kim revisits the darkest hours of her life not just to remember, but to light the way for others navigating trauma and grief.
• Unflinching detail meets unbreakable spirit. Through battered bodies, broken hearts, and an ocean of uncertainty, Kim and Lauren show us what resilience really looks like.
• Signs and synchronicities. Whether you believe in the mystical or not, it’s impossible not to be touched by the meaning woven through every recovered item and every message Kim receives.
• A sacred search. From Superman figurines to Jack’s baby ultrasound, each discovery feels like a message from beyond—and a stitch in the healing fabric of grief.
🌺 TROPES:
• Found family (community support)
• Spiritual signs from the beyond
• Grief transformed into purpose
• Mother-daughter bond
• The enduring power of love
• Perseverance vs. closure
❤️ Final Thoughts
This memoir is not just about surviving the unimaginable—it's about choosing to keep going. It’s about listening to your heart even when logic fails, opening yourself to help even when grief makes you want to shut down, and following whispers of hope through the rubble of despair.
Kim Cantin’s story is a reminder that tragedy doesn’t define us—what we do with it does. This isn’t just a memoir. It’s a tribute, a map through loss, and a powerful testament to how light can rise from even the darkest places.
📝 Takeaways:
• Grief is not linear, and healing is not a destination—it’s a daily decision.
• Love, in all its forms, can transcend even death.
• When community comes together, miracles happen.
• We are stronger than we know, especially when we don’t have a choice.
📚 Recommended for:
Anyone healing from loss. Anyone searching for hope. Anyone who believes that, sometimes, the universe does speak to us—if we’re willing to listen.
🌟 Rating: 5/5 Unforgettable. Unmissable. Unmatched.
December 13, 2025
As a Christian, had I know what Kim Canton kept referring to in this book, I would not have bought this book. She mentioned several times her family went to church down the street, to mass, that she is happy her daughter has her father, etc. In the epilogue, Kim talks about God again yet all through this tragedy, Kim relies on the wisdom of people who are in essence, mediums, spiritualists, etc. but uses a different word for it. She calls them, has them come walk different areas with her, they tell her that her son is talking to them and even Kim thinks her son is telling her things. She is told her sons body will be found. it will be found in pieces. I'm sorry but first off, we are not to communicate with the dead. you cannot believe in God, the Bible and communicate with the dead, it's forbidden. I'm sorry for her and her daughters loss but you can't have this both ways. I could tell you too if your family member was in a violent car accident they will probably be found in pieces as well. I am upset by all the people who do this nonsense to the grieving.
June 18, 2025
In the dark, at 3:30am on January 9, 2018 the most unthinkable thing to happen to an unsuspecting family. A 30 foot wave of mud and debris came crashing down on this family and many others in a California neighborhood. This slide destroyed their home and took the lives of two of the four family members. This memoir is a heartfelt testament of love and devotion in the midst of sudden loss and trauma. This story really moved me emotionally. I could sense the pain of the author Kim Cantin and experience the patience, perseverance, and the willingness to receive help and to heal. My heart is heavy for her loss. It is one of things where in a split second your whole world changes. Go on this journey with Kim but be prepared to feel some of the pain.
May 16, 2023
This book is about finding hope after umberable loss. Moving on does not mean forgetting but each person grieves their own way, at their own time. The author is a brave soul that through searching for her son' remains, she learns valuable lessons in patience, compassion, kindness, friendship, community, hope and love that go beyond obsessive perseverance and the need for closure.
February 6, 2025
Where Yellow Flowers Bloom tells an extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman who learned to navigate through immense grief to bring herself to a place of love and hope. Although her story is stunning, it’s the spirituality throughout the book that really keeps this inspirational book in my mind. Highly recommended.
April 28, 2025
Where Yellow Flowers Bloom by Kim Cantin is a beautifully written book that drew me in. The story tells of a terrible loss in and honest beautiful way. The way Kim looks at life will inspire you to see life differently. I highly recommend.
I was given a complimentary copy and not required to write a review.
I was given a complimentary copy and not required to write a review.
May 14, 2025
This book was hard to put down. So well written, tragically sad yet persistence and perseverance shone throughout. The author and her daughter are so strong, and the assistance of everyone from the first responders to the intuitives were awe inspiring. This story is an example of what a mother and wife will go through for the ones she loves.
June 16, 2023
stellar
A frightening and honest heart wrenching yet ultimately inspiring book. Kim opens her heart and lets the reader feel what she and her daughter went through, survivors who lost so much.
A frightening and honest heart wrenching yet ultimately inspiring book. Kim opens her heart and lets the reader feel what she and her daughter went through, survivors who lost so much.
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November 4, 2025This is a very sad story of grief and a very impressive story of one strong mama bear. I didn’t love the writing and yet it was still a story worth reading. As an aside it was not at all what I was expecting.
February 1, 2026
A deeply moving and beautifully written story of love, loss, and resilience. Where Yellow Flowers Bloom is heartbreaking yet hopeful, offering comfort and strength to anyone navigating grief. Kim Cantin’s voice is honest, brave, and unforgettable.
May 8, 2024
Interesting read because I've heard parts of the story from a friend.
January 23, 2025
This is an incredible story of loss and resilience. As a fellow widow, I can't imagine losing a child at the same time. Both Kim and her surviving daughter were injured, lost their home, and their community was also destroyed. The story was gripping and hard to put down. This story provides hope for others who are experiencing tragic loss.
December 9, 2024
What else is there but to take the next step? What courage and strength this woman had! This is a true story; HIGHLY recommended
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