Joy Enough

Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned an indelible tribute to the joy and pain of loving well Even as her own marriage splinters, McColl drops everything when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, returning to the family farmhouse and laboring over elaborate meals in the hopes of nourishing her back to health In a series of vibrant vignettes lipstick applied, novels read, imperfect cakes baked McColl reveals a woman of endless charm and infinite love for her unruly brood of children.Mining the dual losses of both her young marriage and her beloved mother, McColl confronts her identity as a woman, walking lightly in the footsteps of the woman who came before her and clinging fast to the joy she left behind With candor reminiscent of classics like C S Lewis s A Grief Observed, Joy Enough offers a story that blooms with life. Read Joy Enough author Sarah McColl – kino-fada.fr I m all in for grief memoirs, still, and Joy Enough by Sarah McColl is an honest capture of layered grief loss of marriage, loss of mother It s not only bad parts and her past is largely positive, so it isn t all sad, very true to reality I would give this to a friend struggling with a p...Like a cool washcloth on a hot forehead This was the perfect balm for my own grieving soul.I almost gave up on this book , but so glad I didn t Very touching, and it just spoke to me Lovely So worth it.Thanks you Goodreads for letting me win this book While I got the book for free,it had no bearing on the rating I gave it.I loved my mother and she died Is that a story This book caught me off guard and pulled me in with that first line What follows is the story of a mother s impact on her family, and especially on her daughter, Sarah.The language is rife with beautiful metaphors,...Joy Enough is a beautifully written memoir about love, and the life and loss of her mother I received an advanced copy from NY BookCon.I loved my mother, and she died Is that a story I was captivated from the first sentence of this lyrical, fragmented memoir, and my attention was held through tears and laughter and heartbreak and joy until ev...I watched McColl s edition of stacked on belletrist s Instagram and she talked about all of her own books with such affection I decided I must read the work of a woman who takes that much pleasure in words Joy Enough is strangely Dionysian It luxuriates in language I was not surprised to learn that the author once earned her living making people s mouths water as a food writer McColl imbues every meal eaten, every landscape viewed, and every question answered, with meaning She gives vo I watched McColl s edition of stacked on belletrist s Inst...Sarah used to write one of my favorite blogs, Pink of Perfection This is her debut memoir, and it was incredible She explored love and loss in relationships largely with her mother but also her marriage and within herself Sarah s writing is gorgeous an...Sarah McColl s mother dies, she loved her, she wonders if it is a strong enough story It certainly is McColl writes beautifully of love and death in snippets of memory, interspersed with the story of he...4.5 stars, rounding up Aching, lovely, understated I want to call it a pleasure to read, even if that feels not quite right to say about a memoir of grief I have missed McColl s writing for many years now, and am so glad to have it with me again.

• English
• 27 February 2018
Sarah McColl
• Hardcover
• 161 pages
• 1631494708
• Sarah McColl
• Joy Enough