Tricia Williford's Let's Pretend We're Normal: Adventures in Rediscovering How to be a Family is a heart-warming and powerful spiritual memoir of living faithfully in the face of death. In the first two pages, we encounter the tale of a couple who love one another deeply -- and with all the ordinariness that names quirky loving marriages these days. Their love produces a family, and they're off running. But only for a brief while. Because her husband, the more grounded of the two, is soon stricken with a quick and deadly disorder.Following his death, Williford gives us a story of what it's like to pick up the pieces as a widowed woman, who, with her children, is forced to face what "happily ever after" can probably never be. This is a story that's not for the faint-of-heart, because it's a story of what Christian hope looks like in the midst of the precariousness of life.
Let's Pretend We're Normal is a beautiful and well-written story that speaks to our hearts and souls, and asks us to reimagine what family life is and to reject the lies about what "happily ever after" looks like. I particularly appreciate Williford's conversational style of writing, and her creative phrasing that makes it all so relatable.
This is a book I highly recommend.
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