Someone once told me we have just one truly passionate love in our lives. Sometimes it’s our lifelong partner, but not always. In her memoir, Love’s Journey Home (Atmosphere Press), Gabi Coatsworth puts that theory to the test and ultimately validates it. In many ways, I don’t think Coatsworth’s story…
"Prepare yourself to be heartbroken, expanded, unsettled, and filled with hope." — Michael Cunningham, author of A Home at the End of the World —∞— In Love (Random House) by Amy Bloom hits all the right notes when it comes to revealing and evoking authentic and true emotions. The author beautifully…
“To die will be an awfully big adventure” – James M. Berrie, Peter Pan Searching for Spenser: A Mother's Journey Through Grief (Anamcara Press) by Margaret Kramar opens by telling readers what they can expect to find between its covers; there is no suspenseful moment to the climax, no unforeseen plot…
Kelsey HallOctober 6, 2021
Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s last of act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her — through a column in the New York Times. On March 3, 2017, Rosenthal, a bestselling children’s author and filmmaker, wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times’ “Modern…
BookTribApril 21, 2020
Imagine becoming permanent guardians for two kids — a girl and a boy. You raise them for four years as your own, giving them love and encouragement they’d never had. Then you pursue adoption. But instead of officially becoming their parents, they are ripped from your home forever, without the…
K.L. RomoDecember 5, 2019
Grief certainly isn’t pleasant, but it is something that most of us will have to confront at one point or another. So, when loss inevitably comes knocking at our door, these books, each unique in its approach to the subject, may offer some amount of comfort. Furthermore, if each of…
Chelsea CicconeOctober 26, 2021