Jonea Mounsey’s Memoir of an Adventurous RN Exhibited at the Printers Row Lit Fest Exhibit 2023

The Printers Row Lit Fest 2023 was teeming with book exhibits, and no doubt, plenty of them had stories of adventure, drama, and the pursuit of personal callings. But for Jonea Mounsey’s memoir “I Choose the Moon,” plenty of readers had found all three. The book was exhibited with support from ReadersMagnet, a self-publishing and book marketing company.

To the many who know her, Mounsey is one physically active grandmother who loves hiking, outdoor camping, and exploring nature while staying fit in all occasions. She’s taken part in a number of ultra races and has travelled to at least three continents.

But as much as she loved travel, her memoir shows how life wasn’t always so leisurely.

“I Choose the Moon” covers over twenty years of her life as an RN working and travelling in some of the most challenging medical environments. But for a time before that, she also talks about an increasingly restrictive life growing up.

Born in one of the rural farm towns of Indiana, Mounsey always longed to travel the world but gradually found herself constrained by the life her community desired her to live. Things seemed to have worked out at first. But when her marriage took a very ugly turn with an increasingly controlling husband, she made a big break for it.

More surprisingly still was that she took four of her then young kids with her for the journey.

The book tells all about the many countries she’s worked in since then. She was involved in a desert station all the way out in the Iraqi desert. There was a time where she worked as a flight nurse and then a ship nurse. Overall, the book does not hesitate to tell where Mounsey has been and where else she plans to go.

Jonea Mounsey is already working on her next book (with details and updates regularly shared on her website).

“I Choose the Moon” is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

“I Choose the Moon: My Journey from the Midwest to the Middle East”
Author: Jonea Mounsey
Published date: May 8, 2023
Publisher: Memoir
Genre: MindStir Media

Author Bio

Jonea Mounsey, mother of four successful adults and grandma to six rowdy grandkids, has spent the past twenty-seven years as an RN caring for people in the United States and abroad. She has cared for patients in the hospital setting, in a burning forest, in the air as a flight nurse, on a seismic ship, in an emergency department in New Zealand, and in the desert of Iraq.

Making a promise to a friend that she would put her life undertakings and daring experiences into print, she has written her first memoir, “I Choose the Moon.”

Jonea likes living on the edge and is a true adrenaline junkie. A competitive athlete, she has participated in three ultra-races on three continents. Her soul thrives on keeping fit and spending time outdoors camping, hiking, climbing mountains, or exploring nature.

Her favorite things are traveling to foreign lands while experiencing local customs and cultures and making new friends along the way. These days, she splits her days between (Arizona) and (Iraq), carving out a little time to work on her next book.

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