aiyam's review
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
This book is phenomenal. Rebecca Woolf is such a talented writer and her story is so unapologetically hers.
This book has some major trigger warnings associated with it (descriptions of emotional abuse and sexual assault/violence) but I don’t think it should scare readers off. The journey of Woolf finding her freedom after her husband’s death is a bold one. As I was reading I just kept thinking, how many women feel this exact way and never get the chance to grieve in the way that works for them. Her story of rediscovering herself, of her identity as a widow who hated her husband and was going to divorce him anyway, is such an important one for all the women out there stuck in unhappy marriages.
Memoirs are always deeply personal, but Woolf took it to another level. Their story is so impactful. Everybody should read this book.
This book has some major trigger warnings associated with it (descriptions of emotional abuse and sexual assault/violence) but I don’t think it should scare readers off. The journey of Woolf finding her freedom after her husband’s death is a bold one. As I was reading I just kept thinking, how many women feel this exact way and never get the chance to grieve in the way that works for them. Her story of rediscovering herself, of her identity as a widow who hated her husband and was going to divorce him anyway, is such an important one for all the women out there stuck in unhappy marriages.
Memoirs are always deeply personal, but Woolf took it to another level. Their story is so impactful. Everybody should read this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault
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