Lora Y. (islewalker) reviewed on 6/7/2010 + 29 more book reviews

This is a beautiful book, not a sad reminiscence about a wife's loss. It contains those unique, quirky details of a person's inner life that one usually only gets to know after working in the trenches with them, knowing them a long time. Like the guitar-playing wild man of my youth who would get drunk, leave his job for six months, go down to Mexico and come back with velvet paintings of Jesus saying they were just "so beautiful" to him that night. Or that he loved "whompin' thighed women".

What you notice is not how Abigail Thomas describes, with no pity at all, what is happening to her, but those unique, tiny details that she zeros in on that are who she is. Like finding and saving for years mangled windshield wipers that look like a bird in flight. Unlike most people, the difference is that she knows what it is that makes her unique.

It is, above all, a very uplifting book.

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