Keep Me Afloat

Excellent Sophomore Effort. In this followup to 2019's The Ingredients of Us, Gold does an excellent job of telling a serious tale of a woman struggling to learn to forgive herself while managing to keep the overall tone hopeful. Once again she plays around with using dates as chapter names, which is an interesting construct. Unlike Ingredients, this one uses a more month to month structure, with flashbacks to the same few years prior as events from those periods are revealed. This is also the second book where the lead, as it turns out, is childfree - and still Gold doesn't actually use that term in the book itself. Overall truly a remarkable effort that shows Gold's growth as a writer and storyteller. Very much recommended.