I got pulled in by the picture: a naked marionette woman with red hair. I read the title, Broken Pieces, and I clicked “buy on my Amazon Prime account. Next thing you know, I’m part of Rachel Thompson’s Street Team of Bad Redheads.
“A book of essays inspired by life,” Rachel Thompson’s book cover promised. Oh my, so much more. Are these really essays, or are they poems? The pieces came together like memories sparked by a song on the radio, a shared joke, or a leaf blown across my path.
…time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone…
A good heart takes responsibility for what your brain cannot…
…Women grow, our hearts accommodating all the players in our lives…
…Once I believed in things unseen; I was blinded by the dark. Out of the multitude to me, he came and broke my heart.
The memories may be Rachel’s, but they resonate with me. I just had to reach out, talk to her, and get to know her better.
Broken Pieces is Rachel’s third book, but the first with a serious tone. Her earlier books A Walk on the Snark Side and The Mancode Exposed are both tongue-in-cheek, humorous. In Broken Pieces,