A review by callanisreading
The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

Through vignettes of a traumatic childhood and deteriorating marriage, Kelly unravels the story of a woman for whom past and present blur and connect. With her story so akin to myth, she appeals to an oracle for the wisdom to navigate her memories. In this anthology of landscapes and scars, Kelly offers a heartrending meditation on love, hurt, and how we might heal. 
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