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Where the Light Goes by Sara Barnard
emotional
reflective
4.0
A poignant book about grief and loss. About how it feels once someone so close to you suddenly feels unrecognizable as a person. About how are you don't know someone as well as you think because different parts of them are shown to different people and you can't gather all of the parts.
"That's not the same as knowing her," I say.
"I don’t think..." She trails off, considering. "I don’t think its about knowing her better. In a different way, sure. But not better. Maybe its more like ..
your story of Beth is different. You know? I have a story of me and Beth, and who she was to me, and in your head, there's another story. You don't know mine, and I don't know yours, because they're ours. Be neither one is wrong, or less real"
This book talks about how grief can turn a person, who is albeit slightly messed up, into an idol once they're gone because no one wants to talk about bad sides of the person when they're not there to defend themselves. It's also about how you have to try to find (or fill) that missing piece in your heart that that person has left behind, by leaving you behind. It means that you make mistakes, that you push people away, that you feel lost until suddenly you don’t.
I loved how the book was written. How the font changed and how pages were just somewhat left blank, feeling as if you also had a mind blanked with grief. Everything about this book was so poetic. Highly recommend.
"That's not the same as knowing her," I say.
"I don’t think..." She trails off, considering. "I don’t think its about knowing her better. In a different way, sure. But not better. Maybe its more like ..
your story of Beth is different. You know? I have a story of me and Beth, and who she was to me, and in your head, there's another story. You don't know mine, and I don't know yours, because they're ours. Be neither one is wrong, or less real"
This book talks about how grief can turn a person, who is albeit slightly messed up, into an idol once they're gone because no one wants to talk about bad sides of the person when they're not there to defend themselves. It's also about how you have to try to find (or fill) that missing piece in your heart that that person has left behind, by leaving you behind. It means that you make mistakes, that you push people away, that you feel lost until suddenly you don’t.
I loved how the book was written. How the font changed and how pages were just somewhat left blank, feeling as if you also had a mind blanked with grief. Everything about this book was so poetic. Highly recommend.