Krutika Puranik's Reviews > Here After

my heart is in pieces

have you ever wondered why we’re drawn to stories of grief and suffering? time and again we seek books and tales that captures this heavy emotion, and together the writer and the reader (us) shed a tear. why is it that we mourn the losses of strangers, feel their pain like it’s our own and take days to recover from the aftermath of being part of their grief? i ask myself this every time I read a book in which someone dies. i want to ask questions of my own when i read of such instances, about why bad things always happen to good people and why some lives are so bright yet so short.

i read Here After by @literaryamy and weeped for her loss. For her husband who seemed like an incredible man, son and a husband. this memoir broke my heart and I’m afraid it’ll forever mourn for him.

Amy Lin writes so fluidly, like a river that is made of tears. there’s sorrow and love and everything that ‘could have been’. when she loses her husband quickly and suddenly, it’s like a rug that has been pulled from beneath her feet. an action so abrupt that the world seemed to stop revolving around its axis. from reading about how they met to how they got married, their love story will always be my favourite. this memoir isn’t too long but the weight and beauty of it has singed me, leaving behind this notion that this is how love is supposed to be.

i can’t stop thinking about here after even days after i have read it.

a memoir so raw and sore that it makes you want to call your loved ones and tell them how much you love them. a memoir that will probably never make you take anything for granted.

to @literaryamy , thank you for sharing your story with us ♥️