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The Rules Of Inheritance (2012)

by Claire Bidwell Smith(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1594630887 (ISBN13: 9781594630880)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Penguin Group USA, Inc

review 1: This was a hard book to read, having recently suffered the loss of my father. I took this one on holidays and spent two days sobbing through the pages of this story by the side of a Mexican swimming pool- not the holiday read I should have taken along. However, following the author through her years of grief was incredibly cleansing, and my own path through grief is more understandable to me now. The author writes beautifully, with no unnecessary words- her thoughts are distilled and crisp. Excellent memoir for anyone who feels grief.
review 2: I finished this book this morning & have been sitting on my thoughts all day. Trying to think how to vest convey the beauty, the poignancy, the catharsis of this book. One reviewer said that anyone who has ever lost some... moreone will find themselves in these pages, I keep coming back to this thought, because I found myself between so many of these lines. Not necessarily the actual events, some but not all, but in the way Smith felt. As someone who has lost many, including a parent to Cancer, and even this week my aunt to the same disease, it's like being forced to look deeply into a mirror. Now, for those concerned about trite, Lifetime style memoir, you need not worry. Smith has written this with such style, such lovely prose. And, better yet, a cyclical memoir that relies on repetition, and does not follow some set timeline. Instead Smith weaves in and out of time, in a way that just makes sense. The lack of linearity meant that as I read, I had to go over and over previous events & recall the time periods, this mimicked what grief can do to the mind. Each section of this book has such keen observation both in that place in time & the present of Smith's narration. If you have lost someone, and this loss is a part of you, then this is the book to visit. I hope the tumors of Jennifer Lawrence playing Smith in the film are true, because it will be perfect. READ this book. less

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