A review by bookwormmichelle
The Still Point of the Turning World by Emily Rapp

3.0

This was involving, and very very sad (the author's son is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a fatal genetic disease.) It was raw and angry and painful, but I wish it'd been a little more about the baby, the family--the author, in processing her grief, turned to thinking, to reading, to exploring different avenues and it all seems maybe even too much intellectualized at times. I'd read the book about C.S. Lewis's grief--what I wanted to hear was the story of this family. But it was an intense read, and I think it'll make me think hard about what I say when I encounter someone with a deep painful grief like this.