"This eloquent book is subtitled “A Mother’s Memoir” but that’s not giving Kenison’s chronicle of her sons’ increasing independence its full due. It’s also about longing and fulfillment, taking stock of failures and achievements, a search for the elusive “something more” of one’s existence—and a reminder that life’s seemingly mundane moments are often where we find beauty, grace and transformation."

--Family Circle 

"Katrina Kenison writes the best memoir I've read in quite a while."  Tea, readwithtea@blogspot.com

"An honest, graceful book . . . In the thick of challenging changes, emotional troughs, and tender realizations the reader will find comfort and guidance. Here is a fine writer, a dedicated mother, and a spiritual seeker speaking intimately to parents in search of wisdom."

--Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Writing in the Sand 

"If you are lucky you'll read this lovely, wise book before your children go off to college.  If you read it after they've flown the coop you will likely find much that is familiar in this warm, poignant, and gracious story."

-- Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World and Laura Rider's Masterpiece 

"With an honesty and intimacy rarely achieved in modern memoir, Katrina Kenison dissolves yearning into its complex, sensate parts.  This is a book about midlife want and loss.  It is also a most knowing book about a most gracious love--about the gifts that are returned to those who find beauty where it falls."

-- Beth Kephart, author of House of Dance          

"Much more than a memori of motherhood; it is an inspired and inspiring meditation on midlife.  What Katrina Kenison gives mothers  -- her gift -- is the promise of reinventing ourselves as our kids grow up and we grow older, and the assurance of an invitingly abundant landscape on the far side of parenthood."

-- Lisa Garrigues, author of Writing Motherhood