Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

Short Review: I started this series looking for wisdom and assurance about life. Somewhat similar to what I have felt from reading Eugene Peterson's memoir the Pastor. I found that and much more. I started the first of this four part memoir in the spring. It has been just over six months and I have read seven books by L'Engle in that time.

This one is about her marriage as you can tell from the title. I think it is probably important to know going in that it is about her husband's death. It is a remembrance and dealing with grief. Marriage, when not interrupted through divorce, is ultimately interrupted by death. That is the normal way of life.

There is a great deal of love shown here. But also a lot of the importance of the ordinary. Her focus on always staying up for when Hugh came back from acting. (To the point when the kids were relatively young, 6 to 10, they got themselves to school because she couldn't both get up with them and stay up to be with Hugh after the theater.)

I do with there was another memoir about her life after. She lived another decade.

My slightly different but not much longer review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/two-part-invention/