Memorial Days A Memoir Geraldine Brooks by Geraldine Brooks 9780593653982, 9780593653999, 059365398X, 0593653998 instant download after payment.

Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape & to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz – just sixty years old and, to her knowledge, vigorous & healthy – collapsed & died on a Washington, D. C. sidewalk.

After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine & Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha’s Vineyard. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humor, & tenderness, as they spent their days writing & their evenings cooking family dinners or watching the sun set with friends at the beach. But all of this ended abruptly when, on Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate & many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf.

Three years later, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Australia with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. In a shack on a pristine, rugged coast she often went days without seeing another person. There, she pondered the various ways in which cultures grieve & what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony’s death.

A spare & profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man & a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, & mystery of life.

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Geraldine Brooks is the author of six novels, including Horse, People of the Book, Year of Wonders, & the Pulitzer Prize–winning March. She has also written acclaimed works of nonfiction, including Nine Parts of Desire & Foreign Correspondence.