I have read and enjoyed all of Benilde Little's novels, especially her debut, Good Hair. She was the queen of 1990s black bougie lit. After a long hiatus, I was glad to read her memoir, Welcome to My Breakdown. She chronicles her grief of losing a parent and general malaise about her life as a wife and mother. What does it mean to have the life most women dream of - hard-working husband, beautiful kids, fancy house, and financial stability - just to feel suffocated by it? This is Benilde's life. I empathized with losing her mother, and felt so the love she poured into her children. However, there were times that the chapter headings and proceeding stories didn't match up, and it made the book a little disjointed. But Benilde's story is one women something women wrestle with as we get older, taking care of parents and wondering about the longevity of marriage. And who are we, at 30? At 4O? At 50? Sometimes, life and death changes us in ways we never thought possible.