A beautifully haunting book

And just like that, a mother vanishes from her daughter's life, keeping her always searching for love and a void that none can fill in.

Pearl is a spectacular book, to say the least. Siân Hughes attempts to play around with something as triggering like grief and loss in a debut book, and shining through it is an art in itself.

Marianne is eight when she's is left with a life to deal with in grief and loss of her mother. A woman who went and never came back - never came back for the love of daughter, her baby son, neither her husband nor her responsibilities.
As time passes, We see Marianne deal with restless questions from within that get overshadowed with a hopefulness that her mother would come back. In this expedition of coming in terms with the reality admst the whirlpool that is jolting her from inside, she discovers a poem titled Pearl- as a sign or anecdote or a consolation. Marianne gives birth to a daughter, and the pang of being mother-derived increases. The lyrical narration gives an intense picture of Marianne's past, and the present will make you bewildered and numb.

Grief is a strong emotion, a struggle of acceptance. It hits you in waves and stays until your mind and heart crumble to feeling nothing.
This book exactly does that - it leaves you with nothingness. Like an elongated desire to keep our relationships close, a long prayer of keeping our beloved closer to us. Though, listening to the audiobook wasn't the best decisions but the pace, thw story, the etching saddness and the connection that a person feels after reading the book, loss and grief or a person going away from one's life is inevitable.

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