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runlibrarianrun's review
4.0
Beautiful illustration of bearing witness to someone's grief. The author perfectly displays the tumult, chaos, and fog that comes unexpected death. The author's subtle realization how we as a people separate ourselves from loss and bereavement of others until it we experience it ourselves is an accurate unspoken truth about death in the modern age.
cbitzinger1's review
4.0
This book is beautiful, and its experimentation with form is effective for conveying the author's process of dealing with grief.
...But it's too damn sad to give it a 5th star. I had to keep putting it down and coming back after recuperating myself. Maybe that's the point, and maybe, given the subject matter, this is a petty complaint considering what the author went through? This one will stick with me for awhile, although I'm not sure it's a text I could reread.
...But it's too damn sad to give it a 5th star. I had to keep putting it down and coming back after recuperating myself. Maybe that's the point, and maybe, given the subject matter, this is a petty complaint considering what the author went through? This one will stick with me for awhile, although I'm not sure it's a text I could reread.
erine's review
I think this is the second book I haven't been able to review because of the topic. How do you "rate" someone's grief? I don't think you can. And this book is almost a literal representation of one couple's journey through their grief after the sudden death of their daughter. On one level, this story is terrifying to me because I want to know exactly what happened before - anything I could do to prevent a similar occurrence from happening to my own child. And yet, what does it matter? Sudden death is exactly that: tragic, unpreventable. Blame is useless and unproductive. The best compliment I can give this story is that it takes you along their journey.
bookmerized's review
5.0
Alllll the tears!!! Maybe I related to the grief part very well, or it was just so well done. Some very powerful lines. I will definitely use this memoir and re-read it and know that empathy for grieving individuals is so very real and important to understand.
library_brandy's review
5.0
Beautiful, heartbreaking, devastating. Go hug your children, if you have them, extra-close.
nekomcevil's review
4.0
This book is not nice. And it's not supposed to be. It concerns child death, the pointless loss of your child and the subsequent grief and it does so perfectly. Be warned, it is heart wrenching, gut punching, visceral and unpleasantly honest.