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ceceliacaldwell's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.25
clairelordan's review against another edition
5.0
I don’t think the headache I got from crying over this book will ever go away.
thespicydip's review against another edition
emotional
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death and Death
avrilconuve's review against another edition
5.0
Este libro es una barbaridad. Es bellísimo y además tan honesto. Y además, todo lo demás. Es desgarrador pero hermoso a la vez. Yo no sé cómo ha hecho Naja para traducir algo tan innombrable en esta pieza de belleza literaria. Un libro sobre lo inaceptable, sobre la muerte de un hijo en un trágico accidente. No sé. He llorado de tristeza y de amor. Es un librazo. Leedlo, porfa.
banazzz's review against another edition
3.0
"Nothing penetrates, nothing leaves an impression on me, nothing interests me."
They say no grief compares to a grieving parent. That no words can fully explain this kind of unending pain. And it's true. We can never understand. However, we get to see a fragment of what it's like through this memoir book.
We are looking through the eyes of a mother who lost her child to death. Naja Marie Aidt walks you through her thought process as she tries to explain the unimaginable topics of death, grief as well as recovery and mourning.
Whether you have or have not experienced the loss of a loved one, you can't help but sympathise with Naja. You can't help but feel for her.
The text was somewhat hard to read and understand but once you pick up the momentum, you realise how beautifully the book has been written.
They say no grief compares to a grieving parent. That no words can fully explain this kind of unending pain. And it's true. We can never understand. However, we get to see a fragment of what it's like through this memoir book.
We are looking through the eyes of a mother who lost her child to death. Naja Marie Aidt walks you through her thought process as she tries to explain the unimaginable topics of death, grief as well as recovery and mourning.
Whether you have or have not experienced the loss of a loved one, you can't help but sympathise with Naja. You can't help but feel for her.
The text was somewhat hard to read and understand but once you pick up the momentum, you realise how beautifully the book has been written.
__karen__'s review against another edition
5.0
Simply, this is a book about a mother's grief. It focuses on the otherworldliness of grief.
kjboldon's review against another edition
5.0
Complex and sad, with many interwoven sections always looping back to the moment of a son's death, but not lingering at the place of most intense pain.