Nicole Langman tells her reader that she is wanted from a place of experience and heartache. While I managed to go through just one highlighter throughout the course of reading YOU ARE WANTED, I still found myself relating to so much of Langman's words. Our stories are vastly different (I experienced child loss and the loss of a couple of different jobs over the years and Langman dealt with two separate husbands leaving and divorcing her), the pain, the suffering, the grief, the heartache are all the same. I felt a deep connection with Langman as I read through YOU ARE WANTED; most importantly, I felt her message: I am wanted and deeply loved--regardless.
I am disappointed in the fact that Langman has on the cover of the book hands interfused with gold and she explains the cover on a front page of the book: she explains about Kintsukuroi, "the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, emphasizing the beauty of the breaks." But yet she doesn't doesn't discuss the cover or Kintsukuroi anywhere else within the book. I purchased the book mostly because as soon as I saw the cover I knew what she was going for with the gold in the cracks of the hands. So the fact that she doesn't talk about Kintsukuroi anywhere within the book (other than to have a brief paragraph on a front page) is a big disappointment for me.