I was not familiar with Jaclyn Moriarty’s writing but after this one I will surely have to look for her other books.
It is heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time. So much love for this book, it entangled me and left me surprised. It’s a story about Abi who has been receiving the “guidebook” in the mail for 20 years since the disappearance of her brother. Now she has been invited to an all expenses paid retreat organized by the son of the people who have been sending the “guidebook”. She thinks that her brother’s disappearance and the guidebook are connected. This novel is about loss and grief, about finding your way out of heartbreak and day to day struggles that seem to overtake you.
One part of the book that I loved: “Headlights flared through the window, flaring in my chest, and I understood why Emily Dickinson’s poetry is so terse. It hurts too much to carry on. You keep coming up against the sharp, you need a break, a fence. Niall’s silence, like Robert’s, grew from reprimand to something more like punishment, a scourging.”
It is heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time. So much love for this book, it entangled me and left me surprised. It’s a story about Abi who has been receiving the “guidebook” in the mail for 20 years since the disappearance of her brother. Now she has been invited to an all expenses paid retreat organized by the son of the people who have been sending the “guidebook”. She thinks that her brother’s disappearance and the guidebook are connected. This novel is about loss and grief, about finding your way out of heartbreak and day to day struggles that seem to overtake you.
One part of the book that I loved: “Headlights flared through the window, flaring in my chest, and I understood why Emily Dickinson’s poetry is so terse. It hurts too much to carry on. You keep coming up against the sharp, you need a break, a fence. Niall’s silence, like Robert’s, grew from reprimand to something more like punishment, a scourging.”