Aftermirth by Hillary Jordan is a book about grief as the two protagonists take a road trip that is a darkly funny journey of healing that takes them deep into the heart of their suffering and others, and then beyond it, to a place of peace and laughter. I had just finished reading When She Woke by Ms. Jordan, and having enjoyed that book, reading a second one by the same author seemed reasonable. I highly recommend Aftermirth by Hillary Jordan.
True Love Will Never Die!
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 24 secondsTruth, on some days, is as crisp and clear as a cold winter morning.
On other days, the reality is as opaque as mud.
However, the longer I live with only Jan’s essence, the integrity of our romance becomes more precise as I write my memories.
But are my memoirs the truth Jan and I experienced, or do biases obscure the integrity of memory?
When I read Aftermirth by Hillary Jordan, Michael Larssen, the narrator, raised a question I have not and still do not want to consider.
What if Jan was a great love, but she was not the love of my life?
You can’t know that he was the love of your life, and do you know why? Because guess what, you aren’t dead yet. You may feel dead right now, and believe me I’ve been there, but the fact is, until you’re lying under a tombstone of your own you can’t be sure about anything.
Walking in chilly weather clears my mind.
I do not doubt that Jan was and still is the love of my life.
As David Stevens wrote in The Cool Shady Tree, “The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.”
Jan loved me; I loved her, and our passion will never die.
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