Joy Enough: A Memoir [Hardcover]

Written with enough beauty to stop clocks ticking and heart's beating.... McColl's resonant first book is resplendent with love, and the hope she finds in discovering that her unfathomable grief also carved a space for more profound joy.Even a well-worn topic can become the occasion for stunningly original writing, and such is the case with McColls exquisite memoir,It doesnt take long to find yourself in McColls rhythm, attuned to the beautiful colors and fragrances and tastes that lodge themselves in our memories.... McColls argument  that these small moments make up a life, that these small moments are life  is persuasive, and it is presented with humor and charm.... This is a book about an extraordinary figure who was a housewife, mother, and divorcee. The word mother doesnt entirely do her justice, and yet thats what this memoir does: does her justice, in more than a summarizing word.Sarah McCollsIn beautiful, spare prose, Sarah McColl offers an elegant and deeply-felt meditation on loss that is steeped in the pleasures of this life: in good bread and soft sweaters, friendship, flirtation, and especially love.How can a memoirist take as her subject such a dark night of the soula simultaneous divorce and the death of a beloved motherand forge such greedy, life-affirming grace? Sarah McColls dense and lyrical narrative vignettes are rich with insight and enlivened with humor.Beautifully tender; a deceptively delicate slow-burn story of grief and love and the desire to hold close those we love. Some books are so profound they need to be shared immediately. Others are so sacred, you can't bear to loan them out.Oh, my heart.What if the greatest love you ever had was your mother? In sensuous and elliptical prose, Sarah McColl takes us into the small spaces that contain a life, revealing both the emptiness left by the loss of her mother and the joy that endures. I was intoxicated by this book from start to finish. McColl has a superfan nolă!