I finished this book a minute ago and I can already tell you I will read it again many times. The best way to describe it is as a beautifully written memoir. I found so many parts moving and worthy of putting down the book to really digest what was happening. This part in the beginning was one of my favorites in the book. The last line is something I’ll carry with me for a while.

“Do you know what, Angela? That devastation might’ve had something to do with why I performed so poorly at college my freshman year. Perhaps I had not been such a terrible student, after all. Perhaps I had merely been sad. I am only realizing this possibility at this moment, as I write to you. Oh, dear. Sometimes it takes a very long while to figure things out.”