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A review by basicbsguide
Whiskey & Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith
4.0
“I can hear it coming. Healing. The train tracks leading to my heart are warmed by it. I can put my hand there and feel it hot. It is rattling towards me. Rumbling. The buzzing sound of a flickering light at the end of the tunnel. A grief train rumbling away from us. A healing train coming our way.”
The hardest part for me after losing my Mom almost five short years ago was that the world didn’t stop. I needed time to heal without life “getting in the way”. How was I going to be a mother if I no longer had a mother? Who would I call in the middle of the day for no reason at all, other than to hear their voice?
“My brother Eamon was dead and the world kept going. But not mine. Not my world. F the rest of the world. Mine stopped. Not paused. Stopped.” Leesa you are speaking to my heart and soul here. This couldn’t be a truer statement. This book explores the raw and real emotions one feels after losing someone they love. Life goes on, it must go on, for our children and for us.
Intimate, beautiful and thoughtful, this novel is something I will hold close to my heart for a long time.
The hardest part for me after losing my Mom almost five short years ago was that the world didn’t stop. I needed time to heal without life “getting in the way”. How was I going to be a mother if I no longer had a mother? Who would I call in the middle of the day for no reason at all, other than to hear their voice?
“My brother Eamon was dead and the world kept going. But not mine. Not my world. F the rest of the world. Mine stopped. Not paused. Stopped.” Leesa you are speaking to my heart and soul here. This couldn’t be a truer statement. This book explores the raw and real emotions one feels after losing someone they love. Life goes on, it must go on, for our children and for us.
Intimate, beautiful and thoughtful, this novel is something I will hold close to my heart for a long time.