The Hero of This Book

In this novel written as a memoir, Elizabeth McCracken, the author or the character that we feel like is Elizabeth McCracken, shares about her larger-than-life mother, the hero of this book. It’s summer 2019, one year after her mother died, and McCracken has traveled to London where she and her mother traveled to before. She alternates between different stories of her mother’s life, including her experience of disability, and what it’s like without her there. She makes you wish you’d had the chance to know her mother, even as she’s exploring her own grief.