Ways to Find Yourself

How do you know if the person you were when you were young was the person you were meant to be? (Sea Drift, fictional beach town on the New Jersey Shore, contemporary): Universally relatable, Angela Brown’s new novel will bring you to tears. At what point, depends on you. About-to-turn thirty-eight, Grace Whittaker’s dreams may be or were some of yours too. Life had other plans for her, maybe you too. Ways to Find Yourself works its ways into your heart, be it the intensive losses, wistfulness, pleasures, or astonishment at things you didn’t see coming. There’s many ways to characterize this emotionally heart-heavy and heart-stirring awakening story. A self-help book in disguise. Literary trope of familiar themes distinguished from clichés by using magical realism effectively to visualize our past, on-the-cusp, and future possibilities of ourselves. A life-lesson manual of sorts. The novel feels as if Brown took to heart the existential philosophy of Carl Jung, pioneering…