When Robin Romm's "The Mother Garden" was published, "The New York
Times Book Review" called her "a close-up magician," saying, "hers
is the oldest kind [of magic] we know: the ordinary incantation of
words and stories to help us navigate the darkness and finally to
hold the end at bay." In her searing memoir "The Mercy Papers, "
Romm uses this magic to expand the weeks before her mother's death
into a story about a daughter in the moments before and after loss.
With a striking mix of humor and honesty, Romm ushers us into a
world where an obstinate hospice nurse tries to heal through
pamphlets and a yelping grandfather squirrels away money in a
shoe-shine kit. Untrained dogs scamper about as strangers and
friends rally around death, offering sympathy as they clamor for
attention. The pillbox turns quickly into a metaphor for order;
questions about medication turn to musings about God. The mundane
and spiritual melt together as Romm reveals the sharp truths that
lurk around every corner and captures, with great passion, the awe,
fear, and fury of a daughter losing her mother.
"The Mercy Papers" was started in the midst of heartbreak, and
not originally intended for an audience. The result is a raw,
unsentimental book that reverberates with humanity. Robin Romm has
created a tribute to family and an indelible portrait that will
speak to anyone who has ever loved and lost.
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