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My Wonderful Day

Alan Ayckbourn

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This title features M2 F3, and 1 girl (aged 9). It's Downstairs areas in a modern town house. Winnie...

Decorative and Innovative Use of Concrete

Graham F. True

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This is a broadly chronological account of the decorative and innovative use of Portland...

Dead of Night: A World Book Day Book 2017

Michael Grant

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Set in the alternative World War II scenario of his Front Lines novels, Michael Grant, author of the...

Business Analytics Using R - A Practical Approach

Umesh Hodeghatta Rao and Umesh Nayak

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Learn the fundamental aspects of the business statistics, data mining, and machine learning...

Christine A. (965 KP) rated How To Bury Your Brother in Books

Oct 3, 2020

I was provided with a complimentary copy of this book so I could give an honest review. The opinions are entirely my own, and any quotes are taken from the ARC and may be different in the final published copy.

How To Bury Your Brother is the debut novel of Lindsey Rogers Cook. The title drew my eye, and I thought it would have been a humorous novel. Reading the description, you quickly realize it is not. After selecting the book, because of personal reasons, it was not easy to start reading this book. However, once I started, I could not put it down.

Alice thought she would see Rob, her estranged brother, again. His funeral happened first. Years passed, and while cleaning out her parents' house, she discovers a box of letters her brother wrote to other people. Devastated he did not write a letter to her, Alice is determined to learn about the brother she lost and discover why he left by delivering the letters and meeting people who knew Rob.

Doing so forces Alice to look at the dysfunctionality of her seemingly normal family, how Rob and his abandonment shaped her life, newly discovered family secrets, and secrets she has kept from her family and friends.

The well-written story is a fast read. Cook pulls from her Georgian background to accurately portray southern families, their interactions with each other, with the community, and the stories they tell.

This 200-word review was published on Philomathinphila.com on 10/2/20.