Blind Date With a Book | 642
She writes the things we’re not supposed to say out loud. About grief. About shame. About wanting more than we’re allowed to ask for.
This is a collection of essays that doesn’t flinch. From caring for an alcoholic parent to reckoning with infertility, from menstruation to memory, it lays bare the moments we usually bury. But in that honesty, raw, tender, and defiant, it offers something rare: relief, recognition, and maybe even the first steps toward healing.
Not a book that tries to fix you. Just one that sits beside you and says: you're not the only one.
📗 In The Mood For…
Understanding Myself
Each essay is an invitation to explore your own silences, shame, and resilience. It will open something inside you and help you make peace with what’s there.
✅ Introspective, emotionally complex, and brutally honest
✅ Asks: What stories have you been too afraid to tell yourself?
✅ Resonates long after the final page
Feeling Seen
For those who’ve felt invisible, unspoken for, or too messy to be heard, this book offers powerful recognition.
✅ Centers often-silenced female experiences
✅ Makes space for vulnerability without apology
✅ You might not relate to everything, but you’ll feel less alone
📘 Stories About…
Pain, Suffering & Recovery
There’s no glamorization of struggle here. Just the kind of pain that shapes us and the unsteady, human work of healing.
✅ Acknowledges the mess of emotion without tidy conclusions
✅ Shows how suffering can clarify, not define
Family & Generations
From father to daughter, from silence to speech, this book explores how we inherit painand how we might learn to rewrite it.
✅ Personal meets generational
✅ Family is both the wound and the beginning of healing
The Search for Meaning
Even in grief, illness, or rage, she is asking: What now?
✅ Offers existential inquiry through lived experience
✅ Makes meaning not from grand ideas but from raw truth