Late Migrations

My sister recommended Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl. This is a collection of short stories. Some stories are about birds and other kind of nature in the yard in Alabama or Tennessee.  Other stories are about family. Some of the stories are heart wrenching. The story about how she felt when her father died. She watched him breath and kept praying that this breath would be the last one. That sounds horrible but unless you have watched a loved one die from a disease like cancer, you probably haven't experienced thoughts like that. The stories go back in forth in time and location. This is a writer who doesn't sugar coat the difficult issues in life and I appreciate her honesty.