I Miss You When I Blink spoke to a spiritual level within me. At times, it was like Mary was looking into my soul and saying “As a type-A person who likes control, I know you need to hear this.” And within the essay titled “A Letter to the Type a Person in Distress”, that is literally what she was doing. I felt seen by this book, I laughed during this book, and I gained permission I didn’t know I needed from this book.

Several essays are about Mary’s life with children, and while I do not have children, I still found the essays humorous and knew that if I did/do have children, this is likely exactly how I will be as a parent. I could have read twenty more essays by her, and I hope that in the future she publishes another set of essays, because I would definitely read it. I received an ARC of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.