'Joy Enough' Recalls A Daughter's All-Encompassing Love For Her Mother
Sarah McColl unstintingly puts her heart on the page as she reflects on caring for her dying mother, with whom she is unimaginably close, as her marriage fails.
"I loved my mother and she died. Is that a story?"
Yes, it is the story that Sarah McColl tells in her memoir, Joy Enough. Embedded in the question, which is the first line of the book, is McColl herself â how she grew up in the family that her mother Allison created, how she entered adulthood and married, how her marriage fell apart as Allison was dying.
McColl knows Allison didn't cry when her own mother died:
"She had lost her mother a long time ago, she
