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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Resilience & Reinvention, compiled by Peace Mitchell and Katy Garner, brings together over two dozen memoir shorts about women rebuilding their lives after unexpected changes. In The Crossing, former corporate litigator Amy Laughlin establishes a San Francisco family law practice near her sons’ school, taking firsthand knowledge of divorce into unfamiliar work. The search for independence takes another form in Angharad Candlin’s In Search of Ruby when a severe illness relapse sets the Australian psychologist on a lengthy quest for a suitable wheelchair. Ashley Mansfield’s Letting Loss Lead turns to the relationships that influenced her decision to leave a marriage and eventually California after many years. The idea of finding home continues in Melanie Vairawanathan’s Between Two Worlds, as a seventeen-year-old leaves Sri Lanka for Australia and pursues her ambitions in an unfamiliar country.
Peace Mitchell and Katy Garner’s Resilience & Reinvention is a beautiful collection, with the contributors writing in wonderfully individual voices. Emma Payne’s Still Here is one of my favorites, and her portrayal of the dignity owed to people with dementia is excellent. I loved her consideration for Mark, a café visitor, especially when she crouches beside him and asks whether he wants help. Wambui Machua’s Red Mud and Rain is another favorite, and Machua has a fantastic sense of comic timing. Her account of traveling to work in Nairobi is hilarious, particularly when she arrives with mud on her boots and hears her boss announce that she is in the cleaning business. Well written and candid, readers who enjoy memoir collections will adore this.
