Amy Hale Auker

Why did I wait so long to read this? I love Amy's voice and how it reaches deep inside you and squeezes you into a big hug, even when she's talking about hardship. Perhaps I needed to wait for the right moment to pick this book up.

This is a book about love. The true love you find with that one person, if you’re lucky, love of family and their ways, love of the land and its secrets, and love of work, however difficult.

The first essay,"Ordinary Skin," is beautiful, but "Glow Time" is what made me stop everything to tell the world how wonderful Amy is. It's exactly what being in love is and brought tears to my eyes.

Thank you, Amy, for sharing your love with your readers. I'm glad I waited to read it until I needed it.

Don’t Talk to Strangers

She’ll do to Float the River With and Not Enough Snoopy Band-Aids are love letters to her children. They are very different essays in the way they are written, one as a retelling of an adventure, the other as a sort of letter. The essays are different in much the same way we learn Amy’s feelings towards and relationships with are unique and powerful.

My favorite parts of the stories are the parts about Gail, like KFC in the Dark. Or maybe about animals. Or maybe about her children. Or her mother. Or her father. Or her adventures. Or embracing herself and her uniqueness. Regardless, Amy gives us her heart in these stories, and I am grateful.… (més)