★“An immensely satisfying glimpse of a family’s ability to navigate challenges through honest conversation and mutual support.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

“Meditative and moving. . . Mr. Smith has a remarkable talent for capturing light in his paintings, so that even in depicting scenes of melancholy he brings to them a kind of redemptive luminosity.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Smith’s watercolor and gouache illustrations are moody tone poems that alternate between full-page views of mother and son in the present and smaller, fragmentary images suggesting snapshots in an album and the scrappy nature of memory itself.”— The New York Times

“A sweet story about recognizing in a moment that the moment is going to be a core memory.”—Smithsonian Magazine