Pages: 363 📖 Year Published: 1847 🗓️ Days to Complete: 30 🕰️ Author: Emily Bronte is the second youngest of the famed Bronte family. Aside from a brief stint as a student and teacher in Brussels, it's amazing to think that Emily spent most of her thirty years at home in Haworth, England, similar to both Catherine characters in Wuthering Heights . Emily and her sisters often wrote stories as children but each initially published their respective novels under male pen names.

Marco and I walk the long hallways of O’Hare airport and round the many corners before arriving at the back of the customs line. We groan as we realize how long we have to wait. Maybe 20 minutes passes and my dad texts my brother and me. He tells us that Mom fainted at a funeral she was attending and he is on his way to see her in the hospital. His texts are always so formal, like an email at work. I scoff and thank him for the update. My brother reminds him to keep us update

This is hard for me to write for a lot of reasons: reasons that have made it difficult for me to write anything about my mom since she died, no matter how hard or how many times I’ve tried, reasons I could mention, but I won’t because that’s not what this is about. This is about missing my mom. I miss the way I could cry to her. I never had to have a reason to bawl in front of my mom. She always asked what was wrong, but a sufficient answer could have been, “I don’t know,” wh