Bittersweet. 

LeGarde Grover tackles MMIW through a heartbreaking, but unique angle, she actively chooses to leave the most gruesome and painful elements to the side, choosing instead to focus on the people left behind when a woman disappears. 

This is a beautiful book that does an amazing job of highlighting true resilience the kind that does not shy from pain or block out history or pretend. It is honest and caring. Sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes so sweet. This is the type of book that demonstrates how people who survive manage to find a way to thrive. That hope can survive and when it does it is a beautiful thing. 

This is probably one of my top reads for the year. I’m mad at myself that things got so busy I didn’t get to it earlier. I even had a signed copy. Silly me.