"What makes a memoir like Hopper’s so successful are the moments of reflection, moments of humanity that pierce the panic."

Military Spouse Book Review on Kate Hopper's READY FOR AIR.

Hopper_Ready cover“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.”

Stephen King, The Stand

I love this Stephen King quote so much I actually kind of want it to be true (and I think, for some people and certainly for some characters in books, it is). But what struck me about Kate Hopper’s memoir Ready for Air: A Journey through Premature Motherhood is that almost the entire book dwells in that space of change King describes, the blue mapless place.

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Published in: The Military Spouse Book Review