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Emotional Reads: Where You Left Me by Jennifer Gardner Trulson

So, this was a fun read. Not really, because it was about death, but it was decent-ish. I'm kind of torn about this book. I made the mistake of reading other reviews on Goodreads and they weren't particularly kind to the author. Reviewers told me that the author was quite self-centered and rather annoying. With that now in my head I also began to see the author as self-centered and annoying, somewhat. I'll also admit that I thought this book was something completely different. I put this on my Goodreads list in 2012, and into my Summer reading list probably sometime in 2014. Sometimes when I put books on my list and check them out from the library I rarely read or lookup what the book is about. I believed this book to be a memoir of an abandoned child, someone whose father left and how that impacted their life. That turned out not to be the case because it was the memoir of a 9/11 widow. Lucky—that’s how Jennifer would describe herself. She had a successful law career,...