Jessica

Personable account of someone that lives just a few miles from me in Chicago, but has a difference journey that she shares with thought provoking perspective.

This was my favorite book that I read this year & one that I highly recommend. Very beautifully written, it was the type of book that you didn't want to end.

This is a book that you read & then put down, a while later pick it up & read some more. Finally on a winters night you are determined to finish it & it feels like the last 100 miles of a long road trip - you are happy that you did it, but recognize the energy of the drive outweighed the joy of the vacation.

This will stick with me for a long time “In institutional mourning this just doesn't mean love for a school or for the people in it. It can also mean love for ourselves within the school. In loosing school one loses a version of oneself- a self understood to be a member of a community, living and learning in relation to other community members”

Beautifully written sad/happy story of family interaction dynamics set against the power and legends of the Hawaiian islands. Perfect escapism.