Dear Sound of Footstep: Essays Book

Disclaimer: I am in the middle of reading Dear Sound of Footstep. However, what I have read so has been an interesting diary-like entry about trying to understand her mothers death by disease. Some say that Butlers book is a collection of essays because the story of her past (usually memories with her mother or family) is broken with short chapters on flight, space, or random facts. With a second glance you notice that the facts glaze over - and it becomes part of the search for something more - a purpose in life. So in all I am appreciating Ashley Butler's book and her brutally honest introspective in the wake of tragedy and explanation for some of life's deepest questions.

In Ashely Butlers book of essay's, Dear Sound of Footstep, you find your self on adventure. The adventure is to find yourself amidst tragedy, amidst the loss of a loved one. The subject of death by cancer has been well written upon but Butler finds a way to bring the emotions of loss and searching to a new light. She does this by splitting up detailed chapters of her mother's sickness with chapters of her personal exploration (of space, flight, the horizon). Both melt together as the reader realizes that her exploration of the things known is Butler's way of figuring out the unknown.

Dear Sound of Footstep is a good read for any lazy rainy day. Be ready to struggle for answers, witness graphic scenes, explore and research, and commemorate lost loved ones right alongside Ashely Butler.