First Day

First Day is Holly Sillau's twenty-second book. Her first four are about grief, and the next seventeen cover topics of a humorous nature, wordplay, and travel. Some are books of poetry, and others are novels about history, psychology, and such. This book marks her return to the subject of grief and describes each aspect of the first day of her lifelong journey. It's written in the stream of consciousness style and brings to life the scattered thoughts of a mother as she begins to reckon with the loss of her only child. Keep your tissues handy as you experience each pang of her pain and guilt right along with her--a woman brave enough to let you into her psyche.