I cannot emphasize enough how much I loved this book. This was my first exposure to Penny Guisinger’s writing, which reminds me of the way Jeannine Ouellette writes. She spends less time on telling the reader the surface events of her life (marrying a man and later falling in love with a woman) and focuses more on using metaphor and detail to evoke curiosity and feeling. What does it feel like for your life and identity to fall apart in the throes of parenting young children? How do you rally the courage to step off the edge of everything you’ve ever known? Especially potent is her story of a dying newborn mouse and its similarities to the inner conflict she experienced in taking action around her failing marriage and family. At the same time, her prose about falling in love with a woman is intoxicating. The overall structure is brilliant. I didn’t comprehend that structure while I was reading because I was too busy feeling my way through all the change. But by the end of the book, I could look back and see it, which makes me want to read the book again. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read in exchange for an honest review.