Joy Enough

Joy Enough

by Sarah McColl
Joy Enough

Joy Enough

by Sarah McColl

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Overview

February 2019 Selection, Emma Roberts's Belletrist Book Club

From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of a daughter making and remaking her life in her mother’s image.

Sifting gingerly through memories of her late mother, brilliant newcomer Sarah McColl has penned an indelible tribute to the joy and pain of loving well. Even as her own marriage splinters, McColl drops everything when her mother is diagnosed with cancer, returning to the family farmhouse and laboring over elaborate meals in the hopes of nourishing her back to health. In a series of vibrant vignettes—lipstick applied, novels read, imperfect cakes baked—McColl reveals a woman of endless charm and infinite love for her unruly brood of children.

Mining the dual losses of both her young marriage and her beloved mother, McColl confronts her identity as a woman, walking lightly in the footsteps of the woman who came before her and clinging fast to the joy she left behind. With candor reminiscent of classics like C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed, Joy Enough offers a story that blooms with life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781631494703
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 01/15/2019
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 927,357
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sarah McColl was founding editor-in-chief of Yahoo Food and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her essays have appeared in the Paris Review, StoryQuarterly, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere, and she has been a MacDowell Fellow and Pushcart Prize nominee. She lives in Los Angeles.
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