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 instalment, 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.
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(@AndrewsMcMeel, 17 September 2019, 160 pages, ebook, ARC from (@AndrewsMcMeel via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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Lovelace is one of my favourite poets and I've read most of her books now. I enjoyed this so much I bought a copy of the first book, To Make Monsters out Of Girls. These poems are very personal. Lovelace explores mothers and daughters and how the relationship between them is never simple. The mother in these poems seems to be cruel at times, verging on unhinged and abusive. Some of the poems were painful to read. As the poems were for the most part very short, no more than a few lines I read the collection fairly quickly. I would have enjoyed longer poems with a bit more substance. I looked forward to Lovelace's next collection.
