Niharika Chibber Joe reviews it exclusively for Different Truths.

My editor warned me to be prepared to answer the question “why did you write this book?” once I published Fast Forward to Hope. I thought this would be an easy essay for me to pen as I clearly know the answer intrinsically. Expressing it in writing proved harder as I started and stopped doing it more than a few times.

I have been wondering why it is harder this year. Why am I letting myself feel uncertain? I don’t want to squash the fears. I want to let them out. I feel like I will exhale fully tomorrow when I make it to fourteen years.