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A review by averychipman
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
4.0
I feel like I need a long time to digest Almost Moon, or to reread it now as I’ve just finished it for the first time.
A tragic story, after also just reading Lucky this week, and I saw a lot of parallels between Alice Sebold’s own family and the fictitious Knightleys. While the whole story, the unwinding of Helen’s childhood, failed marriage, and then her parents’ old age is devastating and bleak, there is a beautiful moment at the end when Helen sees the notes that tethered Mrs. Leverton to the world and realizes what tethers her. That, yes, her mother did take everything from her and the loss of her dad and then the subsequent unwinding of her time with him coming to understand he was also mentally cursed, but that she could let go of the past and be tethered by the daughters she loved.
Certainly a lot to think over with this one, but it’s a good one.
A tragic story, after also just reading Lucky this week, and I saw a lot of parallels between Alice Sebold’s own family and the fictitious Knightleys. While the whole story, the unwinding of Helen’s childhood, failed marriage, and then her parents’ old age is devastating and bleak, there is a beautiful moment at the end when Helen sees the notes that tethered Mrs. Leverton to the world and realizes what tethers her. That, yes, her mother did take everything from her and the loss of her dad and then the subsequent unwinding of her time with him coming to understand he was also mentally cursed, but that she could let go of the past and be tethered by the daughters she loved.
Certainly a lot to think over with this one, but it’s a good one.