Folded Wisdom by Joanna Guest

Folded Wisdom: Notes from Dad on Life, Love, and Growing Up by Joanna Guest

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Folded Wisdom: Notes from Dad on Life, Love and Growing Up by Joanna Guest

Pub date: May 7, 2019
Photography, family, nonfiction
Celadon Publishing

I received this digital ARC from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an unbiased review.

ISBN 978-1-250-20778-4 (ebook)

The author moves back home to organize this book containing notes from her father. Her father was an early riser and artist by training who began a morning ritual which included handwriting letters to his son and daughter everyday. Joanna and Theo, her brother, kept the letters not really giving them much thought at the time.

Joanna realizes the wealth of knowledge and dedication it took for her father to express himself each day to his kids. Through the years she realized the wisdom and lessons that he passed on in his subtle manner adorned with drawings. She compiled the notes into this book according to themes including both notes to Theo and herself.

The book reads like a personal diary of a father and his desires for his children. As time goes on, his admiration and appreciation of the adults they become. The notes are touching and reflective of a father “doing the best” he can.












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