Broken for Good
How Grief Awoke My Greatest Hopes
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A daughter's narrative about life with and without her father, whose death plunges her into deep grief but gradually becomes her most compelling reason to hope.
Like so many Christian women, Rebecca, her mother, and her two sisters love a man who does not walk beside them in faith. As his cancer returns after a year of remission, they face his last days. As the women in his life struggle to savor their final times together and let go, he finally reaches out to God, and tells them so. Her father's death opens the landscape of heaven and hope to her. She beautifully renders those visions as well as the underbelly of sorrow as she is finally forced to wake up to the world, to new hungers, and to a far more dangerous faith. Here is a spiritual coming of age manifesto that will take its place alongside Voskamp and Lamott as uplifting writing on loss, grief, and growing up, quick.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jones's hopeful memoir explores how the death of her father leads her to life's deeper truths. With brutal honesty and memorable turns of phrase, she explains her struggle to find hope and candidly explores her less-than-noble feelings about the loss. Much of her memory is tied up in place as she recalls spending time lakeside with her family in New York's Finger Lakes region, but at times she overbakes the mundane descriptions of domestic life. Jones's deep desire for her father to know God is poignantly articulated and might provide solace to readers of faith struggling with similarly restless thinking. "Losing Dad has roused hungers in me that might have slept forever. It's curried in me a kind of Cinderella dream: a keen ache for something that lasts." For Jones, the book realizes her need to express the ways God is always present, even in the darkest situations: "presiding not in the sense that he could take part in fads and fashion, but in the sense that he enjoys perfect kingship. Total reign over every wound, every hurt, just the same as every pleasure." Transparent in her thinking but often playful in her delivery, Jones is a sparkling new voice la Anne LaMott with that rare ability to speak beauty in the midst of life's dark moments.
