![]() ![]() ![]() As I read, she was a person I knew, a good person who was not always nice, a strong person who was occasionally helpless, a generous person who could be frustratingly unforgiving. ![]() She is blindsided by “Memory Smacks” that transport her, reeling, into random, ordinary moments from her marriage to Nick, who died while on a relief mission to New Orleans, following Katrina, his death just another small, immeasurably huge loss amidst rampant tragedy.Īll of which is to say that her grief is authentic. Her grief is singularly unromantic: daily, matter-of-fact, weary, intensely personal, punctuated by wry humor and tiny heart attacks. That’s my widow style”-I knew that Zell was a woman who would tough it out. ![]() From the opening sentences-“I knot Nick’s camouflage apron under my boobs, unable to remember the last time I wore a bra, or preheated an oven. Consolation would not be sudden or free, swooping down to scoop up Zell-or anyone else because she is not the only character in the book who has suffered an awful loss-in its redemptive arms. When I began Alicia Bessette’s Simply from Scratch, I understood immediately that it would contain no easy cures for pain. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware, with her husband and children. The bestselling author of Love Walked In, Marisa De los Santos is an award-winning poet with a Ph.D. Marisa De los Santos Reviews Simply from Scratch ![]()
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