A review by jordie_pear
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

I happened to pick this long-unread book off my bookshelf when a family member was in hospice. I finished it the day after their funeral. Reading these essays helped me to acknowledge my grief. The author so beautifully captures the regret, exhaustion, hope, and fear that have accompanied my losses. I was most struck by the theme of being a caretaker, of the love and duty that inspire caretaking and the grief that will necessarily follow.