Rethinking Possible, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli’s memoir, is told in a voice that is hers: direct, focused, prepared, smart, communicative, tough, and with a spark of humor.

Galli’s memoir is a must read. It touched my heart, and I have a hard time writing about it. It’s not like writing about a book, per se. It’s writing about someone’s heart and soul right out there on paper.

Galli is a competitive type-A personality, driven to be perfect and nearly reaching it. But God has other plans for her life than what she has envisioned or set up in her personal PowerPoint presentation (metaphor, not actually).

In literature, I have never seen a person’s life so beset by one tragedy after another, except in war literature. And yet Galli was prepared for this—prepared by the best. Her pastor father was a marvelous mentor to other pastors, a newspaper columnist, and a clear thinker. He shielded Galli
throughout her upbringing with the strength of his wonderful advice.

That’s why, when I turned the page and encountered a chapter entitled “Farewell to My Father,” I burst completely and utterly into tears.

I could provide you the litany of losses in Galli’s life, but really, what is the point. Please take my word for it and read the book.

I travelled through the darkest days with Galli in this book and at the end I am not sad. Amazed, certainly. Gobsmacked, for sure. I am not sad because watching how Galli’s family was transformed has left me in awe of what family is and can be.

Galli's memoir will be going to film. I wonder who will play Galli.

I can’t write about this book without tearing up, but I also can’t wait to see the movie when it eventually happens!


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*" Any idiot can face a crisis: it's the day to day living that wears you out." I read this book in awe of Becky, her grit, her 'human-ness'. At the same time i was thinking this could very well be novel where you feel like the author inserts herself into the character. A novel because Becky's life is just that incredibly difficult, and full of love at the same time. Can all THIS happen to one woman? Yes it can. It did. And tho not quite the life she expected or planned, the author came out on top.
READ THIS BOOK and appreciate what YOU have. ( )

Despite facing multiple tragedies and seemingly insurmountable challenges, Rebecca Galli has written one of the most powerful, positive and life affirming books I’ve read in a long time. I was riveted. ( )