January Book Review - Godmother by Carolyn Turgeon

I absolutely love Carolyn Turgeon 's writing-her trademark is taking fairy tales and then twisting them. She makes them real and intensely relatable. Her way with words and with imagery is just magical.As I was reading the book, Godmother , I found myself underlining passage by passage, as I related to the feelings of loneliness, lost beauty, and redemption. Here are some passages on loneliness and hardship : (I needed to get to work, to get out into the world before I was sucked under completely. ) (I was lonely, but I was surviving.) Beauty - Artificial: (I looked at them both and saw how vulnerable they were behind the masks of makeup, the elaborate clothes and hair.) Beauty: Lost ( This is not who I am , I thought. Sometimes I ached so badly for my former beauty that I wanted to pull off my skin like an old robe. - How sad that this is the passage that most resonates for me.) Redemption and Healing: (The clink of spoons against mugs