Et cetera : What We're Reading: Kingfisher

I often tell my co-workers I’ve found a new favorite book, but this time I mean it. 'Kingfisher' by Rozie Kelly has settled itself deep in me and refuses to let go.
In a novel spare in length but immense in feeling, Kelly writes of grief—not as something we move past, but as something that walks beside us for a lifetime. She writes, too, of love: how it is inherited, learned, mislearned, and carried forward; how the ways we love are so often shaped by the ways we were first loved by our parents.
Love runs through this book like a thread with no beginning and no end—quiet, unbreakable, binding everything together.
If you love poetry, you will feel at home in Rozie Kelly’s prose. If you love reading about love and its many unnamed shapes, you will feel seen. And if you have ever loved someone you could not quite hold or contain, 'Kingfisher' by Rozie Kelly will know you.
Happy reading, friends.
~Heather