It is so hard to rate a memoir, a true account of someone's life - it to them is real, it's hard, it's ugly and it isn't something that the reader can fully understand. The author chose to show us her story and for that it is something that I view as amazing. This memoir is focused on the author’s experiences and grief during her mother’s downhill health slide and eventual death from COVID19 in 2020. The book alternates between an account of her mother’s final weeks, treatment of the elderly in the US, the author’s grief and some details about her mother’s life prior to getting sick.
This book grabbed my attention because I lost my mother to COVID19 in 2020 as well. It was sudden, it was heartbreaking and it was something that I was in no way prepared for. I resonated with the author's experience and hoped to gain some insight to what others felt and this book delivered that. I had many of the same feelings as the author and could understand the anger, upset, grief that she felt and is still feeling.
This book is an emotion read and one that I felt for days after reading. It is almost like reading my own memoir (minus the childhood memories). I applaud her for writing it and hope that it has helped her, it did help me. It gave validation to my feelings and helped me to feel that I wasn't alone.
This book grabbed my attention because I lost my mother to COVID19 in 2020 as well. It was sudden, it was heartbreaking and it was something that I was in no way prepared for. I resonated with the author's experience and hoped to gain some insight to what others felt and this book delivered that. I had many of the same feelings as the author and could understand the anger, upset, grief that she felt and is still feeling.
This book is an emotion read and one that I felt for days after reading. It is almost like reading my own memoir (minus the childhood memories). I applaud her for writing it and hope that it has helped her, it did help me. It gave validation to my feelings and helped me to feel that I wasn't alone.