to drink coffee with a ghost

by Amanda Lovelace and ladybookmad

"You cannot have a funeral for your mother without also having a funeral for yourself."  This book poses the ever-lingering question: What happens when someone dies before they're able to redeem themselves?

From the bestselling & award-winning poetess, amanda lovelace, comes the finale of her illustrated duology, "things that h(a)unt." In the first installment, to make monsters out of girls,  lovelace explored the memory of being in a toxic romantic relationship. In to drink coffee with a ghost, lovelace unravels the memory of the complicated relationship she had with her now-deceased mother.

• ISBN10: 1449494277
• ISBN13: 9781449494278
• Publish Date: 17 October 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 160
• Language: English

Reviews

[kalventure]

This is going to be a far more personal review than I ever thought I would be comfortable sharing, but here we are. This poetry collection hit me right in the feels and I shed many a tear while reading it. There is something about Lovelace's poetry which resonates with me and I need to have a shelf dedicated to her work.

Just as I needed the mermaid's voice returns in this one, I needed to drink coffee with a ghost. "What happens when someone dies before they're able to redeem themselves?" is the main question that Lovelace investigates with to drink coffee with a ghost. I think it's safe to say that we are all haunted by some parts of our past: people who caused intense and lasting hurt or events which changed us forever.

"lately, it seems like everywhere i look, i find daughters haunted by something their mothers did to them. we tell each other we would raise our daughters differently. we would do this while wondering if our mothers made the same promises to themselves.
- ghost-mother"

You can read the rest of my thoughts on this and many more books at readervoracious.com! Full review will be posted on 9/17/19.

Content warnings: (provided by author) child abuse, eating disorders, sexual assault, self-harm, violence, cheating, death, gore, blood, trauma, grief

Many thanks to Andrews McMeel Publishing for sending me an eARC via Netgalley for my honest review! Quotations are from an uncorrected proof and are subject to change in final publication.

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