![]() ![]() Such a bleak premise may understandably scare many readers away, but those who flee are missing out on one of the most darkly funny meditations on love, family, sisterhood, and the dual natures of life and death that has ever been put to the page. Obviously, Yoli balks at the very notion, but as her sister continues to not get better she must ask herself how you help a loved one who truly wants to die. But once Elf has made up her mind she will not change it, so she turns to her sister–who has always been there for her–for help. Following a suicide attempt, Elf finds herself in the psychiatric ward of a hospital under constant watch. She has gained worldwide fame as a concert pianist but nothing has been able to cure the darkness she feels within herself. It’s a passage that sums up the relationship between Yoli and Elf, as well as the difficult place Yoli has found herself.Įlf has always been a brilliant girl with an anarchic disregard for rules or structure. Decades later, Yoli uncovers the source of the term in the passage above (within a poem by Coleridge). When she was a teenager, Yoli’s older sister Elf took on ‘All My Puny Sorrows’ as her personal brand. To her I poured forth all my puny sorrows” ![]() I guess you have to laugh through your tears sometimes. That hasn’t happened in a great long while–I can’t even remember the last book that made me literally laugh out loud. ![]() This book made me laugh out loud many times. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life.”īy all rights, All My Puny Sorrows should be a bleak, miserable read. ![]()
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