All the Beautiful Things

How does a child react when their mother no longer finds life worth living? They write a list of everything that's great in the world and hope their mother reads it: 1. Ice cream, 2. Water fights, 3. Staying up later than usual and watching TV, 4. The color yellow. And while the child writes, hoping their mother's depression will end and everything will get better, they grow into a young person who studies, falls in love, gets married, and gets d...