A wonderful insight of a woman who’s comforted with the loss of her mother; a journey that makes her reflect on her relationship to womanhood, motherhood, and life itself. With such a beautiful use of language, Simone de Beauvoir is able to depict so vividly the horrors, the turmoils and toils of her mother’s sickness and death. But she also describes with such tenderness and love the small moments of hope and happiness entangled amongst the hardships of watching a parent wither away at the mercy of a horrible disease.