Simone you have left me completely and utterly speechless. So raw and beautiful, yet so horrifying in the way that she describes the impending doom of her mother’s death. Her thoughts and emotions trickle down page by page as she discusses the torment her mother is going through while simultaneously showing her will to live. It’s so agonizing reading the words “I want to live!” as you wait to see how her fate will play out. Has so much to do with how in the grand scheme of it all, we will all have that last hour to live, its just a matter of how big your love towards life had been. “Today I could almost be her mother and the grandmother of that sad-eyed girl. I am so sorry for them - for me because I am so young and I understand nothing; for her because her future is closed and she has never understood anything.”
(no book has ever made me cry this much)