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Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication Date : 2010 02 16
>> Heartwarming and sweet
This is a true sweet and sad story of a family pulling together after a tragic loss It is a reminder of the simple things and how our day to day routines no matter how mundane making toast grounds us and keeps us functioning in the face of sometimes unimaginable tragedy
Amy Rosenblatt Solomon dies suddenly while working out on her treadmill with her two children as witnesses Her parents come to help the kids and her husband cope with this loss all while trying to keep the family routines and getting to know each other under a new set of circumstances Living together and putting back together this family unit
The book is tender and sweet and reminds us all that time is short and sometimes there is a comfort in the day to day when your entire world is spinning out of control
>> Making Toast
I was a bit disappointed in this book The main reason why is that I don t feel that the author ever helped us to really get to know his daughter Amy I felt the heartbreak of him and his wife however was unable to feel like I knew the daughter they were mourning I can tell you facts about her however there was no emotional connection that the reader made
>> Excellent book about a family coping with trajedy
Rosenblatt has given us a beautifully written incredibly moving yet unsentimental portrait of how one family makes their way through the grief and aftermath of a loved one s unexpected and early death I harbored some trepidation about reading this book fearful that I would stumble into passages that would open up my own terrible grief about the loss of a loved one Rather I found that the story of how Rosenblatt and others manages to continue on doing what needs to be done for the children for the family for himself in simple tasks such as making toast going to piano lessons and setting out clothes for the next day was one of the most poignant telling of unimaginable grief and of hope that I have ever read I was not bothered as other reviewers have noted that Rosenblatt mentions a few famous people here and there This is his life and these are the people who populate it some famous some not and it never detracted from what and whom this book was really about Making Toast reads like poetry and is fluid and fast where each passage delves right to the heart of the moment Trite as it may sound it is a story about the resiliency of the human heart and it reads with humor and enormous beauty
