Book Review THE FIFTH CHAMBER Anne Gudger
Thank you to the author Anne Gudger, publishers Jaded Ibis Press, and Get Red PR Books, for an advance paperback copy of THE FIFTHCHAMBER. All views are mine. Opening quote : Field Guide to Christmas Grief: ...27. Find 12 flattish round rocks and nestle them at the base of your blue tree. Gifts. Moons. One for each month you've kept you and your boy alive. Write words on the bottom of the rocks, where they're hidden, where they're just for you. p106 Three (or more) things I loved: 1. Sometimes the way she cuts time is incredible, like the transition from the bottom of p55 to the top of p56. The narrative moves from a very visceral first person account of a near drowning directly to the panic that narrator feels when going to grief therapy for the first time after her husband died. 2. The headache descriptions are so accurate and I felt connection with the narrator because of this trait. I too get terrible headaches, and I wondered while reading what the pain...