This amazing memoir is raw and heartbreaking at times, but it is also laugh-out-loud funny. While it is told through the lens of the author's divorce, it is (thankfully) not a tell-all and the story is much larger than just her divorce. The end of the book's official blurb explains it well: "More than one woman’s story, Awake is a critical analysis of the story given to all of us: the story of gender limitations, religious subservience, body shame, self-erasure. With refreshing candor, Jen explores a Midlife Renaissance—grieving what’s lost, cherishing possibility, and entering the second half of life wide awake."

✨Book Review✨

📚 I love Jen Hatmaker. While I was reading this book no one else existed or was allowed to need me. I binged this book in less than a day and have 0 regrets about how late I stayed up. Jen has told her story in an excruciating and arresting way, capturing the reader's attention. She was able to share her story while somehow also taking the high road, remaining sophisticated, and still weaving in her quick-witted humor. Reading Awake: A Memoir made me cry and nod along in agreement, it made me cherish things I’d accidentally overlooked, and it read like a love letter to life. Jen is still Jen, maybe more so than ever before, and it’s a beautiful thing to experience throughout these pages.

🌟 If you like Jen Hatmaker and her work then pre-order this book immediately. If you’ve been divorced or experienced trauma, pre-order this book now. I am awaiting my own physical copy, set to be delivered once this book is officially published in September.

Extreme gratitude to @NetGalley and @avidreaderpress for the advanced copy of Awake: A Memoir. Kudos to @JenHatmaker for getting herself back to shore and sharing her journey with the rest of us.

More about: Awake: A Memoir - Jen Hatmaker

📖 July 11th, 2020 at 2:30am Jen woke up to whispers of her husband, on the phone with another woman. Life as she knew it ended in that moment and the hours that followed. This is the story of the end, a messy middle, and a new beginning.

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Stars: 5

This was the memoir I didn't know I needed. Jen Hatmaker's story was incredibly sad, but how she took care of herself and her kids, and the healing that has taken place over the past five years, was inspirational. Will be recommending this far and wide.

Jean Hatmaker has written a raw intimate memoir of the sudden end of her twenty Six year marriage.We follow her on her path to healing from the pain.Surrounded by family and friends she takes step after inspiring step to rebuild her life.Full of so many emotions including laughter hope and joy.#NetGalley #avidpress