I’m not even sure how to describe this book without giving it away, but it is, in a sense, memoirs of a woman losing her mom to cancer, and then becoming a mother without her mom.

This is pretty close to home for me, but the author writes about her grief openly and realistically. I wept with her; I felt the pain she felt. It inspired me to read my own journals during the time my mom was sick and died.

The style of this book (written in short “bursts” that aren’t quite chapters, and this format was so perfect for this book) helps you not get too “bogged down” on the grief that one faces daily when losing a parent or close family member. Grief is the common thread, but life goes on, and decisions still have to be made, and things still happen.

Recommended.

I’m so Thankful this book.