Comments on: Swallow the Ocean: A Memoir

By: Jennifer Bradley

Jennifer Bradley — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:31:33 +0000

My heart still breaks for the little girl in the center of this book, and her carefully constructed world of the imagination, the battles against the disease in their home. The writing has an ethereal quality, that you keep the pages long after bedtime, and stick with you long after the last page of rivets.
Rating: 5.5

By: Dick

Dick — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:13:04 +0000

This is a moving and beautifully written love story of a daughter about her mother and her whole family. It is a must for anyone who has ever been close with someone, the “Walking Wounded” is as a result of mental disease lived to read, but not sick enough to be hospitalized. In one of the most beautiful and moving way Flynn tells her story of growing up women in San Francisco, is rising as their mother in mental illness.
I was truly blessed with Swallow the Ocean just a few weeks of care and then burying a mentally sick relatives, which had just taken to those who lived in the closest contact with him. He could not help being ill, the relatives who were not around for him for the task assigned to him. It was not easy to love.
Ms Flynn is building a bridge for us to understand better how to fight mental illness and their families to do the best under very trying circumstances.
Rating: 5.5

By: H. E. Goodman

H. E. Goodman — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:49:32 +0000

Swallow the Ocean is one of the most powerful memoirs I have ever read. I could feel the build of events, although she never wrote about in an overly dramatic way. The book seems to be crafted, brooding, growing pressure, with the other in a calm mind all for the reader, as if given on the sly, as if to share a whispered secret. So the time I read one of the last scenes I was stunned in part, that this kind of action after so much survival of small steps. Simply, do all to do a powerful memoir, but is even more beautiful, because it made thoughtful, quiet, elegant.
Rating: 5.5