#1 New York Times bestseller Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.
The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
By the second chapter I felt like giving up on this book. The first one made me very uncomfortable and triggered me here and there as well (especially during the first one) so please keep the warnings in your mind. I couldn't get into the second chapter at all either. And then the third one came, that made me feel almost exactly the same as the first one did. I was about to give this book two stars, but the last chapter, the healing, had me change my mind and move it up to three stars instead. The last chapter was my personal favorite. This is a very quick read and besides poetry you will find some illustrations in the book as well, which I appreciated.
The last thing I'd like to mention is a short poem, one I liked A LOT and that one is:
"if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise"
