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Memorial days
Brooks, Geraldine2025
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After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, and living in Sydney, Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz settled down to raise two boys on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The life they built was one of meaningful work, good humour, and tenderness, as they spent their days writing and their evenings cooking family dinners or watching the sun set with friends. But all of this came to an abrupt end when, on the US Memorial Day public holiday of 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf. Three years later, she booked a flight to remote Flinders Island off the coast of Tasmania with the intention of finally giving herself the time to mourn. In a shack on the island's pristine, rugged coast she often went days without seeing another person. There, she pondered the various ways in which cultures grieve, and what rituals of her own might help to rebuild a life around the void of Tony's death. A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony and mystery of life.
Main title:
Memorial days / Geraldine Brooks.
Author:
Brooks, Geraldine, author
Work:
Imprint:
Gadigal Country ; Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2025.©2025.
Collation:
212 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-212)
ISBN:
9780733651076 (hardback)
Dewey class:
155.937B/
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2289101