Solace

<p>How do we become the persons we are? <em>Solace</em> seeks to answer that question. A portrait of the emotional legacies and psychological landscapes that shaped the author's life <em>Solace</em> unfurls in a series of vignettes drawn from diaries and personal stories about her relationship to others as daughter mother friend wife therapist and grandmother. These are stories of compassion and attention bringing about healing from grief and brokenness and the necessity of our deep and caring connection to others: the comfort offered to us and the comfort we offer to others.</p>