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semcg5 's review for:
Joy Enough: A Memoir
by Sarah McColl
Beautifully written, profoundly sad, a gorgeous tribute to the author’s mom.
“What if I expect too much of life?” I asked.
She shrugged. “So what if you do?”
“I have never had the guts to call my mother’s oncologist. I still don’t want to be permanently on her shit list. There are questions I have about the end that will go unanswered...I think I know what he would say on the phone, his voice tender. It would not be about how she dies but about how she lived.”
“What if I expect too much of life?” I asked.
She shrugged. “So what if you do?”
“I have never had the guts to call my mother’s oncologist. I still don’t want to be permanently on her shit list. There are questions I have about the end that will go unanswered...I think I know what he would say on the phone, his voice tender. It would not be about how she dies but about how she lived.”