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Joy Enough: A Memoir
Joy Enough: A Memoir | Sarah McColl
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From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother’s image. Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned an indelible tribute to the joy and pain of loving well. Even as her own marriage splinters, McColl drops everything when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, returning to the family farmhouse and laboring over elaborate meals in the hopes of nourishing her back to health. In a series of vibrant vignettes—lipstick applied, novels read, imperfect cakes baked—McColl reveals a woman of endless charm and infinite love for her unruly brood of children. Mining the dual losses of both her young marriage and her beloved mother, McColl confronts her identity as a woman, walking lightly in the footsteps of the woman who came before her and clinging fast to the joy she left behind. With candor reminiscent of classics like C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed, Joy Enough offers a story that blooms with life.
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Manoshgirl51
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This was such an amazing read; definitely something I would not have picked up on my own. The relationship Sarah and her mother have is one that makes you smile as well as break your heart. It really made me miss my mom who passed away when I was younger. I definitely know that the saying "You are just like your mom" really applies to me.

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KGlibrarian
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I just finished this and it gave me a good cry. Such a moving memoir of the author‘s experiences growing up, navigating adulthood, and learning what it means to have a loving mother/daughter relationship.

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ReadingEnvy
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I'm all in for grief memoirs, still, and Joy Enough by Sarah McColl is an honest capture of layered grief - loss of marriage, loss of mother. It's not only bad parts and her past is largely positive, so it isn't all sad, very true to reality.

I would give this to a friend struggling with a parent's illness or terminal diagnosis. It's hopeful in its straightforward look at everyday death (that never feels "normal" when you go through it.)

Christine What did you bake? Looks delicious!! 😋 5y
ReadingEnvy @Christine Joy the Baker's Almond Flour Strawberry Crumble bars but using half spelt flour and lingonberry jam https://joythebaker.com/2019/01/almond-flour-strawberry-crumble-bars/ 5y
Christine Yum!! I‘ll have to try your or her (or my own) version of that soon! 5y
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I love getting free books to review in the mail! #bookmail #surprise.