This week, Ashley at Cozy Home Delight reviewed Scrap: Salvaging a Family.
[The book] brings up that complicated space where grief, resentment, anger, love, and even forgiveness all exist at the same time. The book does not try to simplify those feelings or resolve them neatly. It allows them to exist together, which felt very honest.
I thought I’d share a photo related to my memoir. I write about the cottage my father bought for us to reburbish. This is what it looked like near the beginning, although you really can’t see some of the details I describe in the book. But it gives you what I saw when we first pulled up outside it.
This cottage came with a dirt floor which had been applied over the old linoleum. And yet somehow my father supposedly found a pair of pristine white ice skates with red pompoms in my size in the dirt crawl space (Michigan cellar) underneath.
Tour Schedule:
March 21: Joy Neal Kidney (review)
March 23: Liz Gauffreau, (review)
March 24: Marie Ann Bailey, (review)
March 25: John W. Howell, (excerpt)
March 30: Miriam Hurdle, (companion story)
March 31: Review Tales (review)
April 2: the bookworm (review)
April 9: Ashley’s Books, Cozy Home Delight (review)
April 13: What’s That Book About (guest post)
April 15: Tabi’s Thoughts (review)
April 23: Lavender Orchids (review)
April 27: The Reading Bud (review)
May 4: Chelsea’s Books (review)
Mary 4: Smorgasbord (excerpt)
May 7: The Reading Bud (interview)
May 14: True Book Addict (guest post)
May 19: True Book Addict (review)
May 21: The Book Connection (review)
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