This memoir is focused on the author’s experiences and grief during her mother’s downhill health slide and eventual death from COVID 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.
I see this book as a sort of therapy process that the author used to deal with her grief, almost like a personal journal. I’m all for this method of working through grief and I’m sure the author found it helpful. I was really looking for a personal account of what it was like to watch a loved one die from COVID as I think there are still many people in the US who don’t take the disease seriously. There was definitely some of this content that I was looking for included in this book but the alternating back and forth with the other topics I mentioned above made the book choppy and disjointed. I also found the content really repetitive - when she switched topics, she basically repeated herself over and over and this made the flow of the book not work. It seemed like she didn’t have enough content for a complete book so just repeated things. So, while the book was disappointing and fell flat for me, I hope the author gained some comfort from writing it.
I see this book as a sort of therapy process that the author used to deal with her grief, almost like a personal journal. I’m all for this method of working through grief and I’m sure the author found it helpful. I was really looking for a personal account of what it was like to watch a loved one die from COVID as I think there are still many people in the US who don’t take the disease seriously. There was definitely some of this content that I was looking for included in this book but the alternating back and forth with the other topics I mentioned above made the book choppy and disjointed. I also found the content really repetitive - when she switched topics, she basically repeated herself over and over and this made the flow of the book not work. It seemed like she didn’t have enough content for a complete book so just repeated things. So, while the book was disappointing and fell flat for me, I hope the author gained some comfort from writing it.