LOGBOOK OF A CASTAWAY

Logbook of a Castaway is not a book about “getting over” pain.

It is a place to stay when you don’t know where to go.

Through 12 letters, written as messages thrown into the sea, this book traces one year after a shipwreck—that kind of loss that changes everything—and puts words to what is almost never said: the initial shock, other people’s silence, the body’s exhaustion, the repeated days, the dates that no longer mean the same, the guilt of feeling okay at times… and the quiet act of continuing.

There are no stages here, no advice, no guaranteed happy endings.

There are metaphors, images, pauses.

There is an island, the remains of a ship, bottles drifting, an improvised notebook.

And, above all, there is companionship.

This book is meant to be read out of order, on different days, when something feels heavy.

To open when you don’t know how to explain what you feel.

To close when it’s enough.

To return to when needed.

If you’ve ever felt that you kept living while something inside you drifted away,

if you went through a grief that doesn’t fit into anyone else’s timeline,

if you need words that don’t try to fix you,

Logbook of a Castaway can be that small but honest gesture:

a message found in a bottle that says, “you are not alone.”

It doesn’t promise to save you.

It only offers to keep you company while you continue navigating.