Angela Brent-Harris has fond memories of her childhood in Jamaica. Her father is a loving man, who has nurtured the spirit of all his children with gentle, loving care. She is blessed to have a family structure that is supportive and loving. Her parents have provided a framework for success for all their children by giving them an upbringing steeped in culture, love, spirituality, music, and religion. The family values and ethos are strongly ingrained in all the children as they are lovingly brought up in a secure atmosphere that allows them to blossom naturally.

Love Doesn't Die is a lovely memoir by Angela Brent-Harris about her days in Jamaica as a child and especially about her dad, who comes across as a gentleman par excellence. His love for jazz and the way he exposes his children to music and knowledge by encouraging them to explore through field trips, and by giving them their freedom is a learning experience in itself. His relationship with his wife is an example for all men to emulate. He is the loving patriarch of the family who has upheld his promise to love, respect, and protect his wife. Even on his deathbed, he is more concerned about his wife than about his own impending mortality. The author almost makes you envy the richness of love and culture that she seems to have been surrounded with as a child. One needs to be truly blessed to have a perfect life and the author surely is blessed.

Love Doesn't Die, a memoir written by Angela Brent-Harris, is dedicated to her late father, Yorke Brent-Harris and her mother, Hope. Angela's family lived in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and her memoir is filled with her experiences growing up in that island paradise with her brother and sister. Her father had a rich appreciation for jazz, classical, and reggae music which he shared with his children. Her dad's parents, Angela's grandparents, were also educators during their careers. When Angela asked questions about things like the origins of sugar and foil, her father would take Angela and her siblings on field trips to experience the answers for themselves. In Love Doesn't Die, Brent-Harris takes the reader on a visit to her childhood home and shares her wonderment at the natural beauty of the island where she grew up.

While I read Love Doesn't Die, Angela Brent-Harris's memoir, I began to see her Jamaica in my mind. I could almost taste the shaved ice her family and the neighborhood children prepared by hand as a special treat and taste the spices in the beverages and dishes she describes. Love Doesn't Die is a beautifully written and evocative story that never descends into the merely sentimental. It's filled with memories shared with crystalline clarity and the author's appreciation for life. Brent-Harris is a deeply spiritual person, as were her parents, and her inherited thirst for knowledge has led her to explore different belief-systems in her search, which she also discusses. Reading Love Doesn't Die is a grand experience, filled with visions of sugary sands, blue oceans, exotic spices, and happy families. It's highly recommended.

Love Doesn't Die is a beautiful and heartwarming read that will make you smile and cry, and remind you that nothing in this world is more important than family. Angela Brent-Harris writes her memoir with such love and heartfelt details portraying a caring,devoted,respectful husband/father, along with many thoughtful details about her other special family members.

In the book, Angela Brent-Harris beautifully illustrates what a respectable man her father was as he courted her mother,and generously shares a touching letter her father had written to his future mother-in-law asking for her daughter's hand in marriage. Was also fun and refreshing to read about the spur of the moment road trips that Yorke Devere Brent-Harris would take his children on just because one would ask a question such as, "Where does aluminum foil come from?" or, "Where does sugar come from?" so they could learn firsthand,together as a family. In today's world, I think too many times kids hear, "Go Google it."

Mrs. Brent-Harris shares her private world and shows us in her memoir that we can all learn a big lesson from her wonderful father, Yorke Devere Brent-Harris. Happiness and love already surrounds us all. Just open your eyes.