This I Know: Notes On Unraveling The Heart (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
This is one of those books that you want to sit and take time with but I just couldn't put it down. Susannah writes so aptly about love and loss and the grief that accompanies losing someone we love. Her description of drowning from grief were as though she'd reached down inside of me and found those words there. Susannah has such a beautiful way of writing that explores the stages of grief, the journey it takes you on and the growth that occurs along the way. A positive inspiring book that I highly recommend to anyone who has experienced loss of any kind. This will be one I will re-read for sure. This book helped me tremendously as I've grieved the loss of my special dog, Frankie, known as the "walk 'n roll dog" this summer (she was in a doggie wheelchair due to disc disease).Susannah's book gave me so much hope that I will find a new bliss and direction for my life after such a deep loss. Frankie and I were a team and she was my life and work the past six years, making close to 350 appearances at schools. She was also a therapy dog and we did many visits to a senior assisted facility and hospice.She was part of my journey and purpose, no doubt, and losing her in June was one of the hardest things I've ever gone through. Your book came along just at the right time. We read it for our Creative Book Salon that writing coach Cynthia Morris leads.One paragraph in particular really struck me and helped me so much: "Each person experiences grief in their own individual way. And though I have often thought to lose a child would be the most devastating loss of all, there is no hierarchy to grief- only we can know the pain we fell and what we have lost."There is no right or wrong way to grieve--though so often I think many don't understand that losing a pet can be just as hard, sometimes harder, than losing a human in our lives. But what Susannah shared about the fact that there is no hierarchy to grief is so true. Thank you.Reading her book has given me hope that through my grieving process I will come to a new place, a new path and the journey will continue in a new way. I look forward to that as it unfolds.Thank you, Susannah, for writing such and honest and courageous book--you shared your heart and it truly showed--and it truly helped me.
What do You think about This I Know: Notes On Unraveling The Heart (2012)?
Exquisite truth presented through words and Polaroids. A book I will need to buy for my collection!
—dice
One of my all-time favorite books. This book spoke to me in a profound way. It is exceptional.
—Elizabeth
Beautiful book I could see myself return to again and again.
—awalker
I came across this book at just the right time.
—nathanael21688
