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July 23, 2024
I preordered this book months ago when I first heard of its upcoming release. Like most pre-orders, I completely forgot about it after a while; that is, until it arrived in my mailbox a couple of days ago.
The author spends a page at the beginning warning readers of the heavy subject matter that lie ahead of them, all the while encouraging them to continue on and apply that gold lacquer to their wounds to practice their own art of kintsugi.
I am certain this book arrived in my mailbox at the just right time, with the just right words, and I can now see specks of gold where cracks had formed in me. There were poems that I sobbed over late into the night, read and reread until the words sunk in and the healing began. I saw so much of myself in many of these stories; though the ones where I didn’t were just as illuminating and rewarding.
In these pages, I see an artist who has learned hard lessons, the hardest of which may be how to maintain the fight for one’s own survival through the depths of despair and choose to walk away from the edge of the abyss. In this collection, Kate Leboff’s courage is on full display. She shares it all—the beauty, tragedy, suffering, hope, and resilience of the human spirit. She is candid and raw, observant and honest, and this vulnerability begs readers to allow themselves to be just as open in order to be as deeply known. After all, how can you mend what’s broken if you refuse to examine the cracks? How can you experience the fullness of love if you withhold your truest self from the world? I am so grateful for this book, and look forward to revisiting it when new cracks inevitably form, and I sincerely hope it finds its way into the hands of others who don’t know this is exactly what they need to hear.
The author spends a page at the beginning warning readers of the heavy subject matter that lie ahead of them, all the while encouraging them to continue on and apply that gold lacquer to their wounds to practice their own art of kintsugi.
I am certain this book arrived in my mailbox at the just right time, with the just right words, and I can now see specks of gold where cracks had formed in me. There were poems that I sobbed over late into the night, read and reread until the words sunk in and the healing began. I saw so much of myself in many of these stories; though the ones where I didn’t were just as illuminating and rewarding.
In these pages, I see an artist who has learned hard lessons, the hardest of which may be how to maintain the fight for one’s own survival through the depths of despair and choose to walk away from the edge of the abyss. In this collection, Kate Leboff’s courage is on full display. She shares it all—the beauty, tragedy, suffering, hope, and resilience of the human spirit. She is candid and raw, observant and honest, and this vulnerability begs readers to allow themselves to be just as open in order to be as deeply known. After all, how can you mend what’s broken if you refuse to examine the cracks? How can you experience the fullness of love if you withhold your truest self from the world? I am so grateful for this book, and look forward to revisiting it when new cracks inevitably form, and I sincerely hope it finds its way into the hands of others who don’t know this is exactly what they need to hear.
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