MyNDTALK - A Future Tense of Joy - Jessica Teich
"From the moment I stumbled across the obituary, late at night when I couldn't sleep, I was captivated, and it wasn't the terrible details of her death: That she leapt from the balcony of a high rise in Century City. That she was 27, and a newlywed.“
So begins Jessica Teich's quest to unravel a mystery: the suicide of someone she never met. Bright and accomplished, with a loving family, Jessica knows she should be happy. But a violent childhood has left its mark. Jessica fears she will never be free of her past--until she discovers the obituary of a young woman, whose life is a ghostly echo of her own. A deeply intimate psychological memoir, The Future Tense of Joy is the account of one woman's efforts to free herself, and her family, from the demons of the past. The Future Tense of Joy has been hailed by Meryl Streep as 'beautiful and compassionately imagined.