B.J. Hollars Year of Plenty: A Family's Season of Grief Paperback Book

In November 2020, B.J. Hollars answered a call from his fatherinlaw while teaching. "When will you be home?" Steve asked. "I have news." So began the Hollars familys year of plentya cancer diagnosis on top of the ongoing COVID pandemic, then feelings of falling short as parents, partners, and people. While Hollars traces his familys daily devastations alongside his fatherinlaws decline, he recounts the small mercies along the way birthdays, campfires, fishing trips, kayaking, and fireflies. As he, his wife, Meredith, and their three young children grapple with how best to say goodbye to the person they love, they are forced to reassess their own lives. How can we make the most of our time, they wonder, when time feels so short? Written in vignettes and accompanied by photographs and family interviews, Year of Plenty provides a poignant and unflinching account of how death separates us not only from the people we love but from places and memories too. Hollars explores how deaths allconsuming weight has the potential to fracturerather than strengtheneven those relationships we think we know the best. Ultimately, he cracks wide personal moments from his own life and allows the world to peer in. | B.J. Hollars Year of Plenty: A Family's Season of Grief Paperback Book