Blue Hour by Sarah Schmidt
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💓💓💓💓💓 How spectacular this novel by Sarah Schmidt is! Trying to write a review for a book that I still carry along with me in my bag three days after finishing it is difficult. I keep rereading passages and rediscovering new ones. I don't want to reveal too much away and ruin it for you. And yet, there are so many things to write about it. I never cry when I read a story, no matter how sad. But this story? I felt I was as raw as one of the main characters, Eleanore. The story is deeply affecting and confronting and it contains scenes of violence that will shock you. It moves back and forth between the stories of Kitty and her daughter Eleanor at different stages of their lives with "Motherhood" as the central theme, its toxicity, and the damage it causes as it seeps through generations. War is the backdrop to this brutal, honest, and incisive account of grief, trauma, and discontent. It is a memorable, harrowing, gut-wrenching piece of writing and it will cha
