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A review by happiestwhenreading
Here After by Amy Lin
3.5
While running a marathon, Lin's husband suddenly passed away. While the autopsy indicated it was nearly instantaneous, Lin's world was also changed in a split second. She fell into a deep depression where she struggled every single day just to want to be alive. There are so many lessons in grief you can never know until that is the reality you are faced with. It's long and hard and different for everyone. In addition to her grief, she also had a medical emergency of her own that had her living with her parents and having to go through numerous appointments and procedures.
Lin's gives us vignettes into her grief process - of her love story with her husband, how she managed her days after the loss of her husband, and how she continues to honor and love her husband. It's raw and vulnerable, but also heartwarming and hopeful. She really tells all and lets us into her world.
There is a lot of white space on the page, so this is a very quick read. I loved the vignette style, but also wanted more depth. Most of the book lacked an emotional connection for me...and as I stated earlier this year, this problem really may just lay with me. I think I've burned myself out on the grief micro-genre as I've been fully immersed in it for the past 11 years after I lost my mom to cancer. So much of what I read has already been said, so please read other reviews before taking my word for it!
Lin's gives us vignettes into her grief process - of her love story with her husband, how she managed her days after the loss of her husband, and how she continues to honor and love her husband. It's raw and vulnerable, but also heartwarming and hopeful. She really tells all and lets us into her world.
There is a lot of white space on the page, so this is a very quick read. I loved the vignette style, but also wanted more depth. Most of the book lacked an emotional connection for me...and as I stated earlier this year, this problem really may just lay with me. I think I've burned myself out on the grief micro-genre as I've been fully immersed in it for the past 11 years after I lost my mom to cancer. So much of what I read has already been said, so please read other reviews before taking my word for it!