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Mariah's avatar

"I want to live in a world in which people read stories about other people who make different choices that are not written as moral lessons but rather as accountings of a life lived."

Just love this. <3

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Sara D's avatar

I read an early copy of this book and can co-sign! I was really moved by how deftly she handles those formative years with her dad. It's not romanticized or sentimental; it's sincere and aching and meaningful.

And then the sections detailing her gradual unpacking of that grief made me really, really question why I was so afraid of words like "romanticized" or "sentimental" in the first place. And made me question how much my own relationship style and work style is connected to losing my dad in a traumatic way when I was a teenager. I sincerely had never thought about it that way before, but the way this book is structured effectively shows (rather than tells) what the long term ripples of grief can look like.

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