Donna RifkindAlthough it's as brief as the previous book, this one ranges farther afield and asks bigger questions. It's not a memoir but a meditation—an expression of the formal feeling that follows great pain—and it's not so much about grief as about grief's evolution over time…If Making Toast was an act of ingathering, this book is an act of de-accessioning, a send-off on a funeral boat out to sea, a valediction. It reaches out, but it resolves nothing, and that, exquisitely made, is its point.
—The New York Times Book Review
Reeve LindberghThe words are set down with a spare clarity that has no sentimentality to it but is nonetheless heartbreaking…To keep a family going at a time of great loss is hard work, demanding both courage and stamina.
