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This collection of thirty-two personal essays is about waiting, that most human of experiences. We spend part of each day waiting—for birth, death, appointments, acceptance, forgiveness, redemption. In “Tom Petty Just Isn’t There for You: Riffs on Waiting,” Leslie explores themes of waiting, pleasure, and grief through the lens of Petty’s irresistibly catchy song.
“There are some acute perceptions on waiting. Leslie Greentree begins “Tom Petty Just Isn’t There for You: Riffs on Waiting” with “As a writer, you know how to wait. For acceptance. For rejection.” But the essay turns toward a much more difficult waiting: waiting through her father’s last illness and death: “The hardest part of death-waiting is afterward, when you’ve returned home to wander your house, unable to focus, waiting for the confusion and rootlessness to pass.”
– Elizabeth Greene, The Ottawa Review of Books