Critical Commentary
“Laura’s words take the reader on a potent micro-journey of one woman’s walk with love and life.”
She animates and illuminates what it is to woman in a complex world through falling-in-love-ness, the vows, the children, the potato leek soup making, the rage tsunami of aloneness, and the leave-taking after almost thirty years of marriage…all the while being gently witnessed and held by the backyard Hawthorn tree. Her nutrient-truth-dense words stir an appetite for more. Laura’s brilliant prose married with poignant spacing takes the reader through a Meow-Wolf-like-kaleidoscopic journey of a deeply lived life. A breathtaking work!
— Jenny Glick, Therapist, Writer, Torch Bearer for Women
“Laura Barr’s memoir in micro-essays and poetry expresses the kind of love that goes beyond two; the kind strong enough to set a family in motion and keep it together even when that love changes shape. Linger is an ode, a song, a love letter to love lost, redefined, and found again.”
— Ellen Blum Barish, Author of Seven Springs
