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When Robin Romm's The Mom Garden was printed, The NY Times E book Review called her "a close-up magician," saying, "hers is the oldest kind [of magic] we realize: the ordinary incantation of words and testimonies to help us find their way the darkness and lastly to hold the end away." In her searing memoir The Mercy Documents, Romm uses this magic to expand the weeks before her mother's loss of life into a story about a child in the moments before and after damage.
Having a striking mix of humor and integrity, Romm ushers us into a world where an obstinate hospice nurse attempts to cure through pamphlets and a yelping grandfather squirrels away profit a shoe-shine set up. Untrained dogs scamper about as strangers and friends rally around loss of life, offering sympathy as they clamor for attention. The pillbox transforms quickly into a metaphor for order; questions about medication decide on musings about God. The mundane and spiritual melt along as Romm unveils the pointed truths that lurk around every place and captures, with great interest, the awe, dread, and fury of any daughter losing her mother.
The Mercy Documents was started in the midst of heartbreak, rather than originally intended for an audience. The effect is a organic, unsentimental reserve that reverberates with mankind. Robin Romm has generated a tribute to family and an indelible portrait that will talk with whoever has ever adored and lost.
