I find tremendous hope in the act of storytelling—the way we can redirect energy, to reclaim history, to build back lives that have been otherwise upset.
I couldn’t wait to read it, but I was also infinitely patient. It’s that delayed gratification thing. I’m a sucker for it, and there are books that are worth the wait.
Our lives can be as wild or as wacky as Ramona Ausubel’s fictive worlds, but in the end, as one of her characters puts it, "Everyone wants to be alone in someone else’s heart."