A review by sampena16
Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker
5.0
"This is your family I am running here. I can't take credit for more than remembering to point to you when I do something right and for continuing to put one foot in front of the other when I lose heart. We all miss you something fierce, those of us who wouldn't exist had you not kept walking when an ordinary person would have fallen to his knees. To covey in an existing language how I miss you isn't possible. It would be like blue trying to describe the ocean."
I am still recovering from this book. The last chapter absolutely destroyed me. This gorgeous, gorgeous epistolary is deeply moving, unflinchingly personal and wow - just wow. The prose was pure poetry. I got lost in her language. Parker's writing style is exactly the way I write, except just so deliciously good. Some letters are funny, some nostalgic, and some just punch you in the gut and you're left with a wad of tissues and you have no idea how you got there. Weaving through moments of her life - both big and small - Parker relays the triumphs, confusion, shame, anger and love that she's experienced and all the people, men specifically, who have helped shape who she is today.
I am still recovering from this book. The last chapter absolutely destroyed me. This gorgeous, gorgeous epistolary is deeply moving, unflinchingly personal and wow - just wow. The prose was pure poetry. I got lost in her language. Parker's writing style is exactly the way I write, except just so deliciously good. Some letters are funny, some nostalgic, and some just punch you in the gut and you're left with a wad of tissues and you have no idea how you got there. Weaving through moments of her life - both big and small - Parker relays the triumphs, confusion, shame, anger and love that she's experienced and all the people, men specifically, who have helped shape who she is today.