When they say hybrid forms, they really mean it. The author makes use of transcribed interviews, questionnaires, family photographs, and even a handwriting analysis. 

This is a very interesting book as it’s Huyghebaert exploring her grief, and all the feelings that come with that, over the loss of her father. It’s a very personal and specific story and I wasn’t sure initially how I would feel about that, how I would connect with her personal experience of losing her father and all of her attempts to piece together who her father was.

But the author does this brilliantly and I quickly became invested in her attempts and the story of this man I only know through her presentation. The chapter that offers a first person perspective from her father, as imagined by Huyghebaert, was particularly moving and devastating. Aleshia Jensen also does a terrific job with the translation here, it felt effortless.

Thanks to ZG Stories for a copy to review!