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A review by selmendoooza
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
5.0
what a special book. I truly took my time with this one and I think a lot of it was due to how deeply beautiful and resonant the passages are (and also because life itself can be chaotic and overwhelming). I hope to read it again one day across less time, but I’m grateful that I’ve taken the time with it that I have. prose surrounding nature, love, loss, and so so much more deeply felt in my chest and bones—more and more as the end came near.
there are many worthy quotes to pull, but here are two that I will continue to sit with for some time: “But the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love’s own twin.” // “Here is what no one told me about grief: you inhabit it like a skin. Everywhere you go, you wear grief under your clothes. Everything you see, you see through it, like a film.”
there are many worthy quotes to pull, but here are two that I will continue to sit with for some time: “But the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love’s own twin.” // “Here is what no one told me about grief: you inhabit it like a skin. Everywhere you go, you wear grief under your clothes. Everything you see, you see through it, like a film.”