My God! I'm not saying that lightly, I'm not a OMG person, but this book was something else. Perfectly written, in a minimalistic use of word, but with a precision rarely achieve and an amazing chemistry between the chosen words, the syntaxes and the ideas.

It has been a long time since I had to stop reading to wipe the tears running down my cheeks. Suicide and death of love one is something that touch me deeply and so this book felt very emotional to me. My mother is going to be 60 this years and she is one of the few people I truly love or care about in my life, I can almost count them all on the fingers of one hand, and three of them are already dead so... and even if she is healthy enough, the idea of eventually loosing her is something that I know will devastated me.

This book also bring the background life that people aren't just the role they have in our lives. Our mother is, yes a mother to us, nut she is also a wife, a friend, a daughter, etc. and we never truly can have access to all of her, to all this different aspect of her life and personality. Your mother had a whole life before you and another one that is hidden, inaccessible to you. I pick the mother because of the book, but this is true for everybody. And has I grow older, I realize that the people we love might be the people we know less about, because we aren't always honest to them, not lying, but sometimes just not telling the entire true to "protect" them or not hurt their feelings. Like, for example, a mother could tell a friend, or even a stranger in a bar, that she never wanted to have children, but the chance that she says that to her children is unlikely, even if some do of course. And this book made me think a lot about that.

A masterpieces of empathy, life, love, lost and so much more. I can't recommend it enough!