A Heart That Works
Ratings16
Average rating4.8
What can I even say? This is a raw, brutal and beautiful book about the most irreparable disaster a human can endure, the loss of a little child. Delaney writes beautifully and without holding back how he felt. I'm thankful for the tears and the perspective it gave me.
I don't know how you properly review a book about the true loss of a child. It was sad, funny, honest and if you have suffered the same loss, know someone who has or you just want to feel something deep, read this book.
Strongly advise parents with young children or soon-to-be parents to give this one a miss. It's very sad and the humour is so dark that it follows you for a while after finishing the book. There are lessons to be learned if you're grieving, but the main takeaway is probably to never assume you can fully comprehend what others are going through.
I think I cried on literally every page of this book. But this is a book about a beautiful little boy dying, so that is not surprising. What is perhaps amazing is that every other page, through my tears, I laughed. This books contains all the emotions - it contains life and death and everything in between.
Also, this book made me feel less alone. Either a volcano has exploded all over your life and left a crater of devastation in its wake, or it hasn't. I raise a glass to all my explosion-surviving brethren.