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A review by leahtylerthewriter
Life and Other Love Songs by Anissa Gray
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“Life and Other Love Songs” by Atlanta author Anissa Gray is a heartfelt family saga centered around a Detroit family that excavates multiple layers of trauma — and the generational impact of abuse — as they struggle to claim their piece of the American Dream.
Spanning from the 1960s to the early ‘90s, with a dip back to Jim Crow Alabama, “Life and Other Love Songs” begins with a missing father and explores his family’s journey to reconcile his disappearance when they’re left grasping at secrets.
“Absence was not the same as death,” Trinity Armstead says in the book’s prologue while attending her father’s funeral in 1989 — seven years after he vanished without a trace on his 37th birthday. During that time Trinity and her mother Deborah exist in limbo not knowing what became of him. They can’t mourn and can’t move on. And they don’t know how to interpret his emotional distance in the months preceding his disappearance...
https://www.ajc.com/life/arts-culture/life-and-other-love-songs-weighs-generational-impact-of-trauma/IJVSYYSEAFC3TFO4VV7CN5DH7Y/
“Life and Other Love Songs” by Atlanta author Anissa Gray is a heartfelt family saga centered around a Detroit family that excavates multiple layers of trauma — and the generational impact of abuse — as they struggle to claim their piece of the American Dream.
Spanning from the 1960s to the early ‘90s, with a dip back to Jim Crow Alabama, “Life and Other Love Songs” begins with a missing father and explores his family’s journey to reconcile his disappearance when they’re left grasping at secrets.
“Absence was not the same as death,” Trinity Armstead says in the book’s prologue while attending her father’s funeral in 1989 — seven years after he vanished without a trace on his 37th birthday. During that time Trinity and her mother Deborah exist in limbo not knowing what became of him. They can’t mourn and can’t move on. And they don’t know how to interpret his emotional distance in the months preceding his disappearance...
https://www.ajc.com/life/arts-culture/life-and-other-love-songs-weighs-generational-impact-of-trauma/IJVSYYSEAFC3TFO4VV7CN5DH7Y/