An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey is Richard Brautigan's eleventh and final published novel. Written in 1982, it was first published (posthumously) in 1994 in a French translation, Cahier d'un Retour de Troie ["Diary of a Return from Troy"]. The first edition in English did not appear until 2000, when it was produced by St. Martin's Press.

Cahier d'un Retour de Troie

First English edition
Author	Richard Brautigan
Original title	An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey
Translator	Marc Chénetier
Country	France
Language	French
Publisher	Bourgois
Publication date	1994
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	110 (U.S. edition)
ISBN	0-312-26243-4 (U.S. edition)
Preceded by	So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

An Unfortunate Woman assumes the form of a traveler's journal, chronicling the protagonist's journey and his oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman and the death from cancer of a close friend.