RaveCompulsive Reader[A book like] this requires courage, a certain kind of nerve, an unflinching gaze into the mirror ... At the center of Focal Point is the death of the mother from cancer. We are shown the agonizing days of suffering leading to death and the intense grief, the seeming impossibility of losing forever a loved and loving parent ...For all of the heaviness of loss, sprinklings of humor provide a welcome relief from the trauma and darkness ... How certain she is that she can never explain her grief and its manifestations to anyone ... But then comes this marvellous book where she finally succeeds in pulling us toward her so we may join her in this painful experience. We feel we are with her, those who have suffered the death of a loved one and even those who haven’t yet. With the speaker, and to the extent possible—and risking an assumption—we feel we are with Jenny Qi.
