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The Buddha at My Table: A Memoir: How I Found Peace in Betrayal and Divorce
Can you come sit at the table? Tammy Letherer’s husband of twelve years spoke these words on a Tuesday night, just before Christmas, after he had put their three children in bed. He had a piece of paper and two fingers of scotch in front of him. As he read from the list in his hand, his next words would shatter her world and destroy every assumption she'd ever made about love, friendship, and faithfulness.In The Buddha at My Table, Letherer describes―in honest, sometimes painful detail―the dismantling of a marriage that encompasses the ordinary and the surreal, including the night she finds a silent, smiling Thai monk sitting at the same dining room table. It’s this unexpected visitation, this personification of peace, that sticks with her as she listens to her husband reveal hurtful, shocking things―that he never loved her, he doesn’t believe in monogamy, and he wants to “wrap things up” with her in four weeks―and allows her to find the blessing in her husband’s betrayal. Ultimately, it’s when she realizes that she is participating in her life, not at its mercy, that she discovers the path to freedom.
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Published October 16, 2018
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May 30, 2018
Thank you to Net Galley, Tammy Letherer and She Writes Press for providing me with my digital copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.
The Buddha at My Table by Tammy Letherer
The author hears those dreaded words from her husband Dave.
"I have to tell you something and I want you to let me get through it without interrupting me
because it will be hard for me."
He begins to tell her that about ten years ago he had an affair that he ended pretty quickly. Then he tells her he has been using escort services. Then he tells her that three weeks ago when he was in Las Vegas he met someone.
Wow! To say that the author experiences the feeling she is going to be sick is an understatement. I found her husband to be very selfish and narcissistic. This woman is in shock and primal panic. She is in shock and this book is about her resilience in rebuilding her life. Anybody that hears a confession like her husband just made would be as knocked for a loop as much as she was.
He has plans to move into the apartment upstairs within four weeks, only the tenant currently living there doesn't know eviction is near. The reaction that she has is understandable. She and he continue to live together for a time. She seems to need him and the writing and descriptions are somewhat hard to focus on because she is in denial and thinks that she can fix their marriage by bringing up the question of how to tell the children.
The following chapter she is visualizing how she is going to redecorate and remodel for the up coming holidays. Her imagination into past holidays and all of her thinking processes took away from the blow that hearing this kind of news and made the narrative some what disjointed from her situation. Dave the authors husband has his girlfriend listed in his phone as his boss named Ken.
The writing is witty at times like when the author hears her husband's phone and she runs in the locked closet with a message from "Ken." She responds by asking, "are you or are you not going to leave my husband alone? Should I send you a pic of our kids?" How these husband and wife could remain cohabiting in the same house after his life altering confession is beyond me. It was overall not what I was expecting, but still inspirational to see this author rebuild her life and become the best version of herself.
The Buddha at My Table by Tammy Letherer
The author hears those dreaded words from her husband Dave.
"I have to tell you something and I want you to let me get through it without interrupting me
because it will be hard for me."
He begins to tell her that about ten years ago he had an affair that he ended pretty quickly. Then he tells her he has been using escort services. Then he tells her that three weeks ago when he was in Las Vegas he met someone.
Wow! To say that the author experiences the feeling she is going to be sick is an understatement. I found her husband to be very selfish and narcissistic. This woman is in shock and primal panic. She is in shock and this book is about her resilience in rebuilding her life. Anybody that hears a confession like her husband just made would be as knocked for a loop as much as she was.
He has plans to move into the apartment upstairs within four weeks, only the tenant currently living there doesn't know eviction is near. The reaction that she has is understandable. She and he continue to live together for a time. She seems to need him and the writing and descriptions are somewhat hard to focus on because she is in denial and thinks that she can fix their marriage by bringing up the question of how to tell the children.
The following chapter she is visualizing how she is going to redecorate and remodel for the up coming holidays. Her imagination into past holidays and all of her thinking processes took away from the blow that hearing this kind of news and made the narrative some what disjointed from her situation. Dave the authors husband has his girlfriend listed in his phone as his boss named Ken.
The writing is witty at times like when the author hears her husband's phone and she runs in the locked closet with a message from "Ken." She responds by asking, "are you or are you not going to leave my husband alone? Should I send you a pic of our kids?" How these husband and wife could remain cohabiting in the same house after his life altering confession is beyond me. It was overall not what I was expecting, but still inspirational to see this author rebuild her life and become the best version of herself.
June 18, 2019
The Buddha at My Table is an intensely felt memoir of betrayal, divorce, and redemption. The author’s journey to wholeness is unsparing in its candor and inspiring to all scarred by infidelity’s wounds. 5 Stars
Thanks to She Writes Press and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.
#TheBuddhaAtMyTable #NetGalley
Thanks to She Writes Press and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.
#TheBuddhaAtMyTable #NetGalley
June 2, 2018
Whenever someone says to me, “I have to tell you something,” my stomach knots up and I have a bit of an anxiety attack. To me, prefacing “news” this way says that it is going to be bad and/or hurtful so “brace yourself.” I always end up wishing they had told me straight out instead of warning me.
I wonder if Tammy Letherer, the author of “The Buddha At My Table,” felt the same way, even though she was dozing at the time. At the start of this novel, her husband (Dave) is making himself a Scotch on the rocks. Friends will comment later to Tammy that he should have offered her one. Was that a Tell right there? A foreshadowing? Dave proceeds to say:
“I have to tell you something and I want you to let me get through it without interrupting me because it will be hard for me.”
Dave reels off three things in quick succession — he had an affair, he sees escorts when on business trips and he met someone three weeks ago that he wants to be with (he spent 12 hours with her and is in love). No wonder the first chapter is titled “The Blow.” Later Tammy will learn that he has doubts about monogamy and he was never passionately loved her. You can’t help but feel heartache for this woman and can only imagine the shock she must have felt after learning that most of her 12 year marriage was a lie. Making the whole thing worse is that her father left her mother when Tammy was a teen and subsequently got divorced. She describes her initial response:
“Dizzy, I scramble on the floor in a sort of stunned crab-crawl. White-hot, blinding terror envelops me like a blanket: This must be what death feels like. Dave does nothing to help me and that’s when, for a brief moment, I wonder if I ever existed.”
Like many who are shocked, Tammy reacts with denial. She believes she can help her husband through this and “fix it.” She doesn’t want her three young children to have a similar experience to her own.
“Okay, then. I can do this. I can restore his reason. I won’t allow my children to be products of divorce, to feel the confusion, anger, and self-blame that I felt as a teenager. I’ve been handed a divine task, a chance to do things differently than my parents. To be better. Dave has always said he wants us to be extraordinary, so this is our gift. We’ll take a devastating event and rise above it. What an example we’ll be.”
About a third of the way into the book, Tammy again describes “the blow” and her evolved thinking, suggesting she understands and accepts it or at least is well on her way there.
“...the way it was delivered to me, as a one-two-three punch? Affair. Ker-pow! Escorts. Wham! Las Vegas love. Ouf! Yes, I’ve considered skipping all that, but I need to keep speaking this trifecta to remind myself where I place in this horse race. It’s only when I let all three things sink in that I know all bets are off. My marriage is over.”
This set up an expectation for me that most of the following two-thirds left in the book would be about her move onward from there. In addition, right before her “acceptance” noted above, she has the encounter with a Buddhist Monk who is sitting at her kitchen table. It turns out he is a friend of the babysitter’s and he doesn’t speak any English. Perhaps he is included in the story to symbolize her “awakening” and the start of her spiritual journey. But Tammy’s reaction suggests she still has a long way to go.
“I take his presence as a message, because really, how many people have had a monk at their table? Maybe he’s here to encourage a Zen-like detachment in me, but it’s not getting through the raging hatefulness I feel.”
I kept waiting and expecting to read more about the Buddhist Monk. The title, “The Buddha At My Table,” had me anticipating a lot more about Buddhism and Buddhist beliefs — in fact, that notion actually attracted me to the book. Granted, Tammy does become more spiritual in her vocation, in the last third of the book, but it was much less than I expected.
The other issue I had with “The Buddhist At My Table” was that it became somewhat tedious for me to read. I found myself hoping for her to have the big insight or somehow find some semblance of peace but it took a very long time. That is not to minimize what Ms. Letherer went through. In fact, there were many times I just wanted to hug her. I could feel her pain — she describes her evolving situation, feelings and thought process so vividly. The questions she asks herself are extremely revealing and insightful as to what she is going through and it’s progression. There can be no doubt that what Ms. Letherer went through was a heartbreaking ordeal that can only be described as tortuous, tragic, agonizing, and hurtful. To lose your best friend and so suddenly is deeply traumatic.
At the same time, I felt like I couldn’t take much more of her negative emotions, indecision and conflicted feelings. I kept wanting the story to lighten up and for her to move forward with some conviction.
The intended audience for this book, according to the publisher, is the 30 million married women facing a cheating husband or divorce plus all the others who have been betrayed. Since I do not fit into this definition of the target, that could contribute to why I was unable to rate this book higher than three stars. However, there were redeeming aspects, just not enough of them.
The writing is excellent. I kept reading, wanting to know what would finally happen. There were some universal truths that she wrote about towards the end of the book that grabbed me, such as:
“No matter our age, we can’t stop believing in love. Time and time again we reach for roses, knowing that our hands will bleed.”
“I’m beginning to see a pattern with many people, including myself. We don’t stop to acknowledge our accomplishments or to honor our own processes.”
I just wanted more.
Thank you to She Writes Press and Netgalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I wonder if Tammy Letherer, the author of “The Buddha At My Table,” felt the same way, even though she was dozing at the time. At the start of this novel, her husband (Dave) is making himself a Scotch on the rocks. Friends will comment later to Tammy that he should have offered her one. Was that a Tell right there? A foreshadowing? Dave proceeds to say:
“I have to tell you something and I want you to let me get through it without interrupting me because it will be hard for me.”
Dave reels off three things in quick succession — he had an affair, he sees escorts when on business trips and he met someone three weeks ago that he wants to be with (he spent 12 hours with her and is in love). No wonder the first chapter is titled “The Blow.” Later Tammy will learn that he has doubts about monogamy and he was never passionately loved her. You can’t help but feel heartache for this woman and can only imagine the shock she must have felt after learning that most of her 12 year marriage was a lie. Making the whole thing worse is that her father left her mother when Tammy was a teen and subsequently got divorced. She describes her initial response:
“Dizzy, I scramble on the floor in a sort of stunned crab-crawl. White-hot, blinding terror envelops me like a blanket: This must be what death feels like. Dave does nothing to help me and that’s when, for a brief moment, I wonder if I ever existed.”
Like many who are shocked, Tammy reacts with denial. She believes she can help her husband through this and “fix it.” She doesn’t want her three young children to have a similar experience to her own.
“Okay, then. I can do this. I can restore his reason. I won’t allow my children to be products of divorce, to feel the confusion, anger, and self-blame that I felt as a teenager. I’ve been handed a divine task, a chance to do things differently than my parents. To be better. Dave has always said he wants us to be extraordinary, so this is our gift. We’ll take a devastating event and rise above it. What an example we’ll be.”
About a third of the way into the book, Tammy again describes “the blow” and her evolved thinking, suggesting she understands and accepts it or at least is well on her way there.
“...the way it was delivered to me, as a one-two-three punch? Affair. Ker-pow! Escorts. Wham! Las Vegas love. Ouf! Yes, I’ve considered skipping all that, but I need to keep speaking this trifecta to remind myself where I place in this horse race. It’s only when I let all three things sink in that I know all bets are off. My marriage is over.”
This set up an expectation for me that most of the following two-thirds left in the book would be about her move onward from there. In addition, right before her “acceptance” noted above, she has the encounter with a Buddhist Monk who is sitting at her kitchen table. It turns out he is a friend of the babysitter’s and he doesn’t speak any English. Perhaps he is included in the story to symbolize her “awakening” and the start of her spiritual journey. But Tammy’s reaction suggests she still has a long way to go.
“I take his presence as a message, because really, how many people have had a monk at their table? Maybe he’s here to encourage a Zen-like detachment in me, but it’s not getting through the raging hatefulness I feel.”
I kept waiting and expecting to read more about the Buddhist Monk. The title, “The Buddha At My Table,” had me anticipating a lot more about Buddhism and Buddhist beliefs — in fact, that notion actually attracted me to the book. Granted, Tammy does become more spiritual in her vocation, in the last third of the book, but it was much less than I expected.
The other issue I had with “The Buddhist At My Table” was that it became somewhat tedious for me to read. I found myself hoping for her to have the big insight or somehow find some semblance of peace but it took a very long time. That is not to minimize what Ms. Letherer went through. In fact, there were many times I just wanted to hug her. I could feel her pain — she describes her evolving situation, feelings and thought process so vividly. The questions she asks herself are extremely revealing and insightful as to what she is going through and it’s progression. There can be no doubt that what Ms. Letherer went through was a heartbreaking ordeal that can only be described as tortuous, tragic, agonizing, and hurtful. To lose your best friend and so suddenly is deeply traumatic.
At the same time, I felt like I couldn’t take much more of her negative emotions, indecision and conflicted feelings. I kept wanting the story to lighten up and for her to move forward with some conviction.
The intended audience for this book, according to the publisher, is the 30 million married women facing a cheating husband or divorce plus all the others who have been betrayed. Since I do not fit into this definition of the target, that could contribute to why I was unable to rate this book higher than three stars. However, there were redeeming aspects, just not enough of them.
The writing is excellent. I kept reading, wanting to know what would finally happen. There were some universal truths that she wrote about towards the end of the book that grabbed me, such as:
“No matter our age, we can’t stop believing in love. Time and time again we reach for roses, knowing that our hands will bleed.”
“I’m beginning to see a pattern with many people, including myself. We don’t stop to acknowledge our accomplishments or to honor our own processes.”
I just wanted more.
Thank you to She Writes Press and Netgalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
July 16, 2019
The Buddha at My Table is an intensely felt memoir of betrayal, divorce, and redemption. The author’s journey to wholeness is unsparing in its candor and inspiring to all scarred by infidelity’s wounds. 5 Stars
Thanks to She Writes Press and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.
#TheBuddhaAtMyTable #NetGalley
Thanks to She Writes Press and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.
#TheBuddhaAtMyTable #NetGalley
June 28, 2018
This is a title that you find yourself wanting to highlight and reflect upon, and re-read with a different eye than you started with. On it's face it is the story of a husband, Dave, appearing strongly narcissistic and cruel, casually dumping the mother load of pain on his unsuspecting wife and mother of his three children, Tammy. Has never been faithful and has decided that he isn't made to be a monogamist......just ask his current girlfriend. Tammy is so blind-sided that she literally is brought to her knees. And there she remains for much of the story in ways literal and figurative, cycling through all the stages of grief that one does with a loss. As a counselor myself, I have tried to help people unravel themselves from their history with this person to see the path to this new journey that has been thrust upon them......to mindfully take joy in the smaller moments of now and treasure them. I will also admit to an inward cheer for Tammy when the mediator tells Dave that she can't help him because what he is saying makes no sense. Finally someone who says out loud what Tammy has been fighting since the nightmare began! Tammy is honest......not only with herself but with her children......and makes her way to what she wants in this new life as she discovers it. A story of pain, of self-doubt, of re-discovery, of digging into your strength and finding healing in the every day. Beautiful.
November 25, 2018
I have to admit, I didn’t think I’d like this book, let alone love it. The Buddha and Divorce? I thought it would be some new-agey, cathartic, self-help tome.
Instead, I found this to be a beautifully written, totally engaging memoir of a fully open and highly skilled writer who has been shaken to her bones by a surprise divorce and is asking you, the reader, to come with her as she figures it all out.
From the first chapter, aptly titled “The Blow,” I was with her. Though she’s hardly the first person to be divorced, you feel her sense of betrayal and pain of rebuilding as she would—unique and singular-- through a combination of total authenticity and surprising language.
As a sample, here are some of the phrases that had me turning down page corners and circling back:
“I’m stunned at the audacity of this smackdown.”
“If we were superheros, we would have capes covered with giant type and we would wordsmith each other to death.”
“What color is her parachute, and will it match her shoes?”
“I appreciate the inspiration, but I can’t resist swelling into grandiosity.”
Though the end would have been more effective if closer to the resolution of the major conflict, I appreciate that the author wanted to bring us up to date.
I’m seriously ready for this author to write fiction.
Instead, I found this to be a beautifully written, totally engaging memoir of a fully open and highly skilled writer who has been shaken to her bones by a surprise divorce and is asking you, the reader, to come with her as she figures it all out.
From the first chapter, aptly titled “The Blow,” I was with her. Though she’s hardly the first person to be divorced, you feel her sense of betrayal and pain of rebuilding as she would—unique and singular-- through a combination of total authenticity and surprising language.
As a sample, here are some of the phrases that had me turning down page corners and circling back:
“I’m stunned at the audacity of this smackdown.”
“If we were superheros, we would have capes covered with giant type and we would wordsmith each other to death.”
“What color is her parachute, and will it match her shoes?”
“I appreciate the inspiration, but I can’t resist swelling into grandiosity.”
Though the end would have been more effective if closer to the resolution of the major conflict, I appreciate that the author wanted to bring us up to date.
I’m seriously ready for this author to write fiction.
February 20, 2019
When an author with background as journalist and novelist pens a memoir, the result is a remarkable blending of the three forms. There is objective reportage, and there is the elegance of a literary novel. There is the beautifully drawn emotional journey of a soul in transition that is honest and piercing in its vulnerability without being self-pitying, without sugar-coating or overplaying her own shortcoming and missteps in the face of her husband’s breathtaking unkindness. There is also a masterfully managed element of suspense; although the subtitle of the book “How I Found Peace in Betrayal and Divorce” lets us know right away that author Letherer won’t remain broken, the crescendo of setbacks and curve balls builds an uneasy sense of what-next? More than once I felt a small tingling sense of not quite knowing if I was reading a novel or a memoir, the events sometimes so seemingly inventive in that truth-is-stranger-than-fiction way. A central thread throughout the book is Letherer’s desire to become the writer she feels she is meant to be, navigating the deep doubts many emerging writers experience and the nay-saying and often-despicable smack-downs from those who supposedly know more (a college instructor tells her that her writing “makes me sick”). This only stoked the joy I felt when I closed the book, yes!, she made it as a writer, and yes, we can look forward to reading more.
June 25, 2018
Thank you to the publisher and to Net Galley for the ARC for review. My review is my own opinion.
I was interested in reading this book because my husband of 25 years met someone young on a golf course and ended our marriage abruptly in a similar situation to the author destroying my life and everything we built together. I to was shocked as she was and experienced many of the same emotions and issues she did. However her ability to let her ex live with her is beyond my scope of understanding. Somehow they cohabited while they worked out the divorce. This book is about how she reaches inside of her and builds her life over with courage and resilience. How a Buddha at the table guides her inner self and shows her what she can be. I am very impressed by her writing style and by this book that truly resonates with all of us that have been betrayed by our husbands destroying our lives. Very well done.
I was interested in reading this book because my husband of 25 years met someone young on a golf course and ended our marriage abruptly in a similar situation to the author destroying my life and everything we built together. I to was shocked as she was and experienced many of the same emotions and issues she did. However her ability to let her ex live with her is beyond my scope of understanding. Somehow they cohabited while they worked out the divorce. This book is about how she reaches inside of her and builds her life over with courage and resilience. How a Buddha at the table guides her inner self and shows her what she can be. I am very impressed by her writing style and by this book that truly resonates with all of us that have been betrayed by our husbands destroying our lives. Very well done.
November 13, 2018
I was intrigued with this book's title. I immediately thought of when sitting at a table doesn't necessarily suggest a happy, close-knit gathering of loved ones, but rather an indication of something ominous that needed to be cleared and pushed through. Such is the memoir by Letherer who chronicles her life's journey beginning the day her husband asked for a divorce when sitting at the table. Letherer's accounting sticks to facts and does not lead readers one way or another. She narrates with unflinching honesty and consistent reflection woven throughout. Not a typical divorce memoir, but an atypical account of Letherer's self-discovery of resilience as she learns about love, friendships and faithfulness, when, in the end can sit at the table with a new defintion.
December 18, 2018
This book was a joy to read! It puts a fresh and unique spin on the common human experience of divorce. Tamy freely exposes her raw human emotions and insecurities, yet has deep spiritual insights and realizations that reveal herself to be a wise soul. And the way she expresses herself: in a scene sitting on the couch with her three kids after her father dies of heart disease, described as “four ventricles of a beating heart.” I love that! There are so many more, with every chapter ending with a gem. I also love the many synchronicities sprinkled throughout the book. Finally, how she sees Dave (her ex) is mirrored in her relationship with Paul (her new romantic interest), and realizes that we are all one. How beautiful that is! So many times this book touched my heart!
October 1, 2021
Letherer takes the reader on a raw and moving journey from "who and what am I?" and "what do I want?" to discovering and honoring herself.
She begins her tale by choosing everyone else -- and ends by choosing herself, which makes for a compelling memoir (especially in the hands of such a skillful writer.)
I kept turning the pages to revel in her evolution and growth: from heartbreak and devastation . . . through forgiveness and surrender (with grace and love) . . . to freedom, pure potential, daring again, demanding honor and respect (and honoring herself!)
An inspiration to live our own lives.
She begins her tale by choosing everyone else -- and ends by choosing herself, which makes for a compelling memoir (especially in the hands of such a skillful writer.)
I kept turning the pages to revel in her evolution and growth: from heartbreak and devastation . . . through forgiveness and surrender (with grace and love) . . . to freedom, pure potential, daring again, demanding honor and respect (and honoring herself!)
An inspiration to live our own lives.
October 17, 2023
Tammy Letherer's searing memoir illustrates how capriciously and suddenly our lives can alter. She navigates her impending divorce with dignity describing its profound impact on her young children and professional identity with detours to dating misadventures and the reevaluation of long standing friendships. The book's narrative is always relatable and lucid. Through loneliness, soul searching, a spate of rejections, she transitions admirably to a well-earned acceptance of her newfound solitude and self. "The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle" as Woody Allen wrote in Hannah and Her Sisters. A heartwarming book!
March 16, 2019
I enjoyed this book and felt for the author. I believe this could be a helpful read for someone going through her situation (betrayal that leads to divorce.)
Tammy shares her wide range of emotions as she first learns of her husband’s infidelity, realizes that she will be eventually be a divorced woman, and re-enters the dating scene after many years of marriage and motherhood.
She has turned lemons into lemonade with this work that has the ability to help others going through the same scenario.
Tammy shares her wide range of emotions as she first learns of her husband’s infidelity, realizes that she will be eventually be a divorced woman, and re-enters the dating scene after many years of marriage and motherhood.
She has turned lemons into lemonade with this work that has the ability to help others going through the same scenario.
January 24, 2023
I read this book in one sitting. I feel seen by the author, having experienced something very similar.
I admire the strength she finds in her own voice, in discovering what she wants for herself instead of always internalizing what other people want for her.
While not quite as open as she is, I do feel like my divorce has made me more open to things I don't fully understand. Emotion, poetry, connection, impulse.
Tammy, thank you for sharing your story with the world. It's a better place for it.
I admire the strength she finds in her own voice, in discovering what she wants for herself instead of always internalizing what other people want for her.
While not quite as open as she is, I do feel like my divorce has made me more open to things I don't fully understand. Emotion, poetry, connection, impulse.
Tammy, thank you for sharing your story with the world. It's a better place for it.
December 16, 2019
This book was exactly what I needed days into my unwanted and unexpected separation from my husband. Tammy articulates with both beautiful and raw prose all of the conflicting and confusing feelings, fears, doubts and challenges that the unraveling of a marriage brings to the surface. I am immensely indebted to her for courageously sharing her story and shining light on the common vulnerabilities we face as forge our way through this painful experience.
January 16, 2020
I hate the fact that I could not put this book down. Having gone through a divorce myself, I want to feel like it's a mundane topic that I would not find compelling enough to hold my interest. I was wrong. Letherer shares her story with a magnifying glass that gives it a fresh portrayal and heartfelt emotions that hooked me early on. She kept me wondering how she'd get through, while knowing she probably does, but her observations are so keen and well-written I couldn't put it down.
October 24, 2018
The writer takes you on a journey of devastation, healing and ultimately, recovery without asking the ready to pity her. Throughout the narrative, the reader can sense an inner strength that will surely prevail. Transparent emotions on every page but not overwrought. Superb ability to draw the reader along trial by trial and win by win. Highly recommended!
November 23, 2018
I like to read real stories about real people who overcome challenging times in their lives. This is that kind of story. The author is a good writer, and she held my attention throughout. The title is the only thing I don't get. This book is on the "New" shelf at my library, so hopefully it will attract many more readers.
July 30, 2018
What an extraordinary read! I read this mostly on an airplane and it was the perfect engrossing read. The story isn't new, but the writing is fresh, raw and real. I'll definitely be ordering a copy for my library's collection.
January 30, 2019
After a couple rough starts, I settled into this book last night. It was honest, though provoking, and a great read. I could not put it down and finished about 1:30 this morning!! Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of this book.
December 31, 2018
I loved this book. Tammy is a great writer, I’m going to follow her and check out her other books..
She wrote with such honesty, I couldn’t put it down once I started.
Really inspiring !!
She wrote with such honesty, I couldn’t put it down once I started.
Really inspiring !!
March 26, 2019
I really enjoyed this book! Though I am not going through a divorce, I am the child of divorced parents and I found this book to be exceptionally well-written and inspiring!
January 15, 2023
“Nothing compares to the peace that comes with expressing yourself the best way you possibly can, to coming as close to your truth, as you were able and, in the process, feeling free.”
March 7, 2023
What a story..she is honest, incredibly reflective, beautifully transparent and shares with us her journey as she finds her peace and power.
December 16, 2024
This book shows the determination of a woman scorned to rebuild her life authentically.
February 28, 2026
Letherer expresses herself boldly. Painfully loses herself and ultimately finds her higher Self amidst the imperfect circle that is life. Her words are a reminder to never give up on yourself.
August 17, 2020
Great title, disjointed read
And whining. Lots of whining.
And whining. Lots of whining.
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