I totally related to that in so many ways. At the beginning of the book, Grace recalls a memory of lamenting a long introduction period to preschool. She plans, organizes, worries, and tries her best. Grace is an almost 40 stay-at-home mom who just had a bombshell–well, quite a few bombshells–dropped on her, destroying her seemingly perfect life. I felt an instant connection to Grace, and I found myself engrossed in her story. A book I will return to over and over.ĭid I enjoy this book: I did enjoy On Grace. Whether they learn how to be a better friend, wife, or just a better self they will learn something. I feel like anyone who reads this will sit back and have an ah ha moment and realize they can learn something. More importantly it is a story of a mom being more than just a mom a wife being more than just a wife. I was excited that she grew throughout the story and was able to recognize that she was important and needed but that she had to be herself. Her resolution to become herself again was amazing. I loved that at her birthday party her friends managed to tell her exactly why they are friends and how amazing Grace is. Whenever a person looks at herself it is easier to be critical of what you see rather than celebrate what you are. Being a mother and wife brings on everyday adventures but add on the extras in Grace's world and I am amazed she truly did lot crack under the pressure. I could relate easily to the stresses in Grace's life. Grace struggles to get her life back on track and make herself happy again. With her boys finally in school all day, she finds a job she cannot wait to start, until she loses the job before it begins. Almost forty, Grace May, is a mom of two boys and wife of a successful man.

On Grace by Susie Orman Schnall