My Thoughts on… Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron

I usually find myself shying away from memoirs about losing loved ones simply because it brings up those times in my life when I have had to say goodbye to people I loved deeply: my grandmother, my mother, and my father, for example.

Sometimes the pain of that loss can hurt as deeply as if it had just occurred, and I’d rather not go back into that place.

Despite that, I took a chance on reading Delia Ephron’s memoir, Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life.

I knew in advance that it was about the...