How long is too long to mourn the love of your life?
Writer Geraldine Brooks suffered a tremendous loss when her husband of more than three decades – war correspondent, writer ...
‘Memorial Days’ Review: Grief, Interrupted
After the novelist Geraldine Brooks lost her husband, she postponed confronting the enormous loss—until it became impossible ...
Review: Geraldine Brooks remembers her husband (and fellow Pulitzer Prize winner) in ‘Memorial Days’
I remember a night of inconsolable mourning when I played records way too loud, drank too much and scribbled pages into my ...
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This intimate memoir of grief is a lifeline to others dealing with loss
How many more adventures there would be for us, just as soon as Tony’s book was finished.” It was never meant to be. While walking home from breakfast, on May 27, 2019, Horwitz experienced a ...
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Geraldine Brooks on 'the work of grieving,' and what we can all do
The new book “Memorial Days,” by Geraldine Brooks, begins with a phone call in 2019. A doctor at a hospital in Washington, D.C., tells Brooks that her husband had collapsed and died on a sidewalk.
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Geraldine Brooks delivers a rich account of marriage and mourning
When, without warning, Geraldine Brooks’s husband, Tony Horwitz, collapsed on a Chevy Chase sidewalk and then died at a D.C. hospital, age 60, she felt cheated in numerous ways. She was not with him ...
Biblioracle: Geraldine Brooks’ memoir ‘Memorial Days’ is about the meaning of love and loss
Her new book recounts her experiences after the sudden death of her husband, the writer Tony Horwitz. It is not just another book about grief.