WE ALL COME HOME ALIVE

My life has shocked me One of the shocks has been sadness death and other instances of impossibility But the greater shock has been joy I feel the hard flint of joy within my chest the strength of it It has stunned me with its refusal to be repressed A life is made up of many shocks the shock of birth of death the shock of love of happiness the shock of car crashes and finding yourself in a teenage body the shock of surviving each of these shocks and of what might bloom in their wake In this incredibly beautiful book Anna Beecher tells the story of her life through the shocks she has experienced