‘An unclenching of the soul’: Geraldine Brooks’ raw, gentle grief memoir has helped me navigate my own mourning
In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks processes the sudden death of her husband of 35 years, and shares how other cultures make ...
Tony Horwitz's widow Geraldine Brooks writes a beautiful memoir of grief
Horwitz died suddenly in 2019 while on a book tour. In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks grieves her husband — and also ...
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This poignant book on grief ultimately teaches gladness. “Memorial Days: A Memoir” by Geraldine Brooks is a spectacular ode to grieving and an elegant homage to marriage. Three years after […] ...
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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 ...
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Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Memorial Days: A Memoir’
Tony Horwitz and Geraldine Brooks in their Martha’s Vineyard home in 2016. Photo by Randi Baird. Courtesy GeraldineBrooks.com. The author will be speaking at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on Wednesday, ...
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Jaguars hire Hall of Famer Tony Boselli as the franchise’s executive vice president
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Pro Football Hall of Fame left tackle Tony Boselli, the first draft pick in the history of the Jacksonville Jaguars, has been hired as the franchise’s executive vice ...
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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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Pulitzer winner turns from fiction to ‘very personal project.’ She’s coming to KC
Never had to write, to be more accurate. “Memorial Days” (to be released Feb. 4) is a memoir about Brooks’ relationship with Tony Horwitz, her husband of 35 years who died suddenly in 2019 at the age ...
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Biblioracle: Geraldine Brooks’ memoir ‘Memorial Days’ is about the meaning of love and loss
“Memorial Days,” Geraldine Brooks’ memoir of the sudden death of her husband, writer Tony Horwitz, is not just another book about grief. Structured in alternating chapters, one thread ...
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In ‘Memorial Days,’ Geraldine Brooks writes of grief, widowhood, and enduring love
On Memorial Day 2019, Tony Horwitz, the 60-year-old husband of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer himself — in fact, in the middle of a book tour ...
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Tony Boselli's New Role with the Jaguars: What's Next for the Hall of Famer?
One of the more significant changes of the 2024 offseason could involve one of the bigger names in franchise history. Tony Boselli, the first member of the Pride of the Jaguars and the first Jaguars ...
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Geraldine Brooks remembers her husband (and fellow Pulitzer Prize winner) in ‘Memorial Days’
writer and historian Tony Horwitz. He died on Memorial Day in 2019 at age 60, but Brooks sequestered herself on a remote Australian island to write about him more than three years later.