From a bracing new voice comes this life-affirming memoir of the daughter making and remaking her life in her mother’s image. Sifting gingerly through memories of her past due mother, amazing newcomer Sarah McColl provides penned an indelible tribute to the pleasure and discomfort of loving well. Even while her own marriage splinters, McColl drops everything when her mom is identified as having cancer, time for the family members farmhouse and laboring over elaborate foods in the hopes of nourishing her back to health. In some vibrant vignettes?lipstick applied, novels read, imperfect cakes baked?McColl reveals a female of endless attraction and infinite like for her unruly brood of children. Mining the dual loss of both her youthful relationship and her beloved mother, McColl confronts her identification as a female, walking gently in the footsteps of the woman who came before her and clinging fast to the joy she left behind. With candor similar to classics like C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed, Joy Enough offers a tale that blooms with life.