Go As A River

Go As A River

Go As A River

book by Shelley Read

Themes: place, loss, womanhood, endurance, memory

Reading status: Read

Notes from reading this book across different moments—what caught me during the read, what held weight afterward, what prompted return.

A woman is more than a vessel meant to carry babies and grief

Go As A River by Shelley Read

I had also gathered along the way all the tiny pieces connecting me to everything else, and doing this had delivered me here, with two fists of forest soil in my palms and a heart still learning to be unafraid of itself.