An enthusiastic 4/5 star-review to Daniel James Brown’s The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party. Best known for his book The Boys in the Boat, here Brown tackles the dark history of what happened during the winter of 1846-1847.
There is no perfect, ideal, and cohesive road for motherhood, only the twist and turns of the “figure it out yourself” sort... Was I ever a fully-fledged person before I had my children? Why yes, of course I was… I had a life and it was a great one –...