'What We Have' Tells Us What We Need

The book 'What We Have' by Amy Boesky was delivered on Wednesday about 10:00 a.m.and by 11:00 p.m. that same night I had finished one of the most wonderful non-fiction books.  I took time among reading to do regular chores but I had to get back to Amy's story.  Amy, Julie and Sarah are sisters with an horrible problem they were faced with their entire life.  They shared a family trait and it was a deadly one. When reading the title and the inside cover one finds out that cancer is the family trait that has been shared with all the women in the family.  Sadly, all the women are having daughters and not sons.  This means that the girls in the family is faced with the same result, cancer.   First impressions of this book would mean show that this was a book full of depressing chapters of depressing episodes in life.  That first impression would have been wrong.  This book is filled with much humor, insight, joy, pain, growth and struggle.  This family is deciding how to live in the present while taking into account their past and their futures.   I do not recall one part of the story that was slow and difficult to read.  I thought that I was sitting next to Amy on her sofa in a sea of green shag.  We could have been drinking some tea and I could have been listening to Amy tell a story about her family.  It was that real and engaging.   You realize in this story of this family that they were exceedingly normal with an difficult situation to overcome.  You begin to ask yourself that same questions they had to ask.  It is impossible to know if you would make the same decisions they did, but you definitely admit that you are relieved that you did not have to make actually those same decisions.   Taking Care of the Written Word, Dannielyn This book was given to me to read and review.  The review is a honest account of this writer's opinion and not a paid endorsement.