Unraveling Grief and Love: The Haunting Journey Within "Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell"
The goodwill Sleigh builds in the first thirty pages is banked against the uncomfortableness ahead. Rosie is beyond quirky. What her sons and husband experience edges into abuse. Sleigh’s expository paragraphs and Rosie’s journal entries about her early life illustrate how she broke free from her dirt-poor Kansas upbringing. Her slow realization of the gender divide and her disinclination to be a wife and mother offer some justification for her actions. “I remember the first time I got an inkling of my having any special intelligence. I was 43!” she wrote. “Imagine the vast years of unworthiness I must have experienced…the thing that surprises me the most was my complete lack of resentment or even awareness of this disparity…I believed that men are naturally more important…Despite this perpetration, I was really obsequious to my own children simply because they were boys.”
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