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Finding words when a 16-year old son commits suicide. This book unfolds the author’s relationship to both - her son, and words. As she finds her son through imagined conversations, she turns over the words that they have shared in life, and that attend her loss.

Reducing spiritual ‘love’ to trite romanticism.
Shafak intertwines multiple timelines in many of her books. This one least successfully - maybe because the past timeline is in fact a book written and read in the present timeline. Too many first-person narratives make up the book about the past - a clever experiment, perhaps, but confusing, and it also limits character development.
I can’t finish this book.