A review by revsqueeze
Marriage and Other Acts of Charity: A Memoir by Kate Braestrup

4.0

I found this to be quite readable, and often moving. The style is similar to her first book, “Here if You Need Me.” I read it as my dad was dying, so many of my thoughts were centered on my parents and their long and loving marriage. One of her lines that really struck home was the idea that for a marriage to end with the death of one partner is a success story — that ultimately, on the day the vows are said, the stated goal of the couple is to eventually face the grief of being parted by death. Somehow even though I’m a minister and a hospice chaplain, having officiated at many weddings and funerals, I had never hit upon that particular realization.