When Women Were Birds, Fifty Four Meditations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams is a beautiful, poetic, meditative memoir that is written in honor of Tempest William’s mother, who has passed away and left her her journals; three shelves of journals she was instructed not to read until her mother was gone. When she opened them, she found every single one blank.

This book is Tempest William’s reflections on what that might mean, and we are richer for the experience of reading it. Beautifully written, full of wisdom and grace, I loved this book.