Absorbing Grief

I picked up this book to read a few sentences and could not put it down. Robin Romm has written a memoir of the last three weeks of her mother's life, of being with her mother her final days in her battle with cancer. The writing is clean and descriptive, bringing us into her most personal moments during this wrenching time. She makes no apologies for her anger, it is what was there for her. This is not a book about dealing with death, healing or accepting it. This is about her relationship to her mother and what dying and death stole from them. It is ultimately about owning your life, acknowledging that events will change you forever, and knowing you may never heal. It is not tender, but it is real and it is beautiful.