A memoir about the troubled life and then tragic death of the author’s sister. The unfolding of so much family dysfunction, so many family secrets, such surprising deception— makes for compelling but heartbreaking reading, especially if you’re a sister. Through hunting for the missing pieces in her sister’s life story, Ona Gritz honors a life cut short and shares with readers her journey towards closure.

Devastating for a family. Can’t imagine.
Thanks to author, publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book. While I got the book for free it had no bearing on the rating I gave it.

Sister Secrets Survival and Horrific Murder.
Everywhere I Look is a beautiful memoir written by Ona Gritz. Ona lost her pregnant sister, brother-in-law, and nephew at 19 to a horrific murder It is the tragic story of not only Angie her husband son and the baby girl she was carrying but the tragic sad life Angie also endured at the hands of her mother.
Ona bears her heart and soul in this book after 30 years Ona shares the deep dark family secrets which were not only hidden from Angie but the whole family. There are two older children from their mothers first marriage whom Angie and Ona did not know existed. Then there is Angie's adoption into the family which ends up being a surrogate birth or a quick fling behind the bar one evening between their father and an unknown woman and kept hidden.
Both girls where treated no differently one loved one not by their parents. Ona this book is beautifully written about sister secrets and survival. You honor your sister in this heart rendering book with your honesty and love as you piece together your lives and journeys as you recount your sister Angie's troubled path to adulthood and then Angie and her whole family's horrific death. I loved and mourned her with you as you told your story. Thank you for sharing your story. Thanks to NetGalley and to the publishers of this book for giving me a free advance copy of the book to preview and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

A lot of books tell an interesting true story but make it read like a report. This unflinchingly honest memoir tells the story of one sister’s heartbreakingly terrible brief life by the favored little sister who knew next to nothing of her family’s secrets and scandals, and the horrific murder of her very pregnant sister and her husband and 11 month old child. It is told like a long letter to her long dead, beloved sister who really never had a chance in life. It’s a heartbreaking read but incredibly well told.

I read a digital copy of this book for review.

Such a lovingly written memoir of a family with much dysfunction. Ona’s mother seemed to treat her so well, and her “adopted” sister Angie/Andrea so coldly growing up. Ona reflects on that dynamic, along with the tragedy that engulfed her sister’s family in 1982. Along the way she learns so much about why things may have happened, along with many things she didn’t know. Very insightful story I flew through in a day..

Everywhere I look is a love story from one sister to another filled with grief, tragedy, deep love and understanding.

At the age of 19, Ona loses her pregnant sister, brother-in-law, and infant nephew to a brutal murder. As Ona gets older, the urge to better understand her sister and her life grows inside of her. This leads her to many years of research that reveals family secrets. As she begins to better understand her sister and family as a whole, she grapples with her complicity in her family’s legacy.

At times this book was hard to follow with its changing timelines and jumps; but overall a wonderfully heart felt memoir that shows the impact of trauma on young girls as they grow into adulthood.