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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Drifting Sublime Hope, Zach Girard looks back on childhood through memories that seem to exist at a distance, many preserved in videos filmed by the author's father before journals become a record of the years that follow. The author remembers experiencing school differently from people nearby, though an explanation remains out of reach. College begins as the author's father is diagnosed with leukemia, bringing illness into a life already changing as the author leaves home. COVID soon alters university life, turning those journals into a place where questions the author once could not name begin finding language. Accounts of autism begin to mirror the author's experiences, followed by a changing understanding of gender. The memoir follows the author into the twenties as adulthood starts taking form.
Zach Girard’s Drifting Sublime Hope is an exceptional memoir, and the author writes with such openness that I very quickly felt I knew the person behind the journals. I loved how well the author captures friendship, like when a night at the movies ends with the roommates crying together in a Red Robin parking lot after seeing Encanto. That closeness sits naturally beside the author's humor, including a White Elephant exchange at US Equestrian where coworkers receive sixty plastic horses simply because their jobs revolve around horses. The journals are full of moments like these, small enough to be instantly recognizable yet meaningful in the way people actually remember their lives. Well-written and inspiring, readers who appreciate memoirs that find meaning in everyday experiences will embrace this.
