"You cannot have a funeral for your mother without also having a funeral for yourself."
This book poses the ever-lingering question: What happens when someone dies before they're able to redeem themselves? From the bestselling & award-winning poetess, amanda lovelace, comes the finale of her illustrated duology, "things that h(a)unt.
My Review:
Rating: 4/5 stars.
"the ways in which they suffer themselves is not an excuse to make you suffer in return." - Amanda Lovelace.
I want to thank NetGalley for giving me a ARC of Amanda Lovelace's new poetry anthology for an honest review. It must have been a real journey for Amanda to write this book let alone having to go through it all. This book is a journey for the reader as well as we have all grieved for someone. When I read about her mother's cancer, it inspired me to finally write about the loss of my Grandma. This book has helped me in my own grieving process. I think Amanda is very brave to have been able to publish this book out into the world for everyone to see. People will connect with it because it is about something so real. Death of a loved one is the worst part of our existence but sharing our grief will help others like this book has helped me. I thought the art in this book was beautiful and worked perfectly with the poetry. Each chapter focused on a different part of the grieving process and explored feelings of guilt and love and hate. The last chapter showed Amanda's strength and I am so happy that I get to read her work. She is an inspiration to everyone. Being able to go through the things that she has but still living her life to the fullest is amazing. A Brilliant poetry anthology that I recommend all to read! Amy x
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