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This book made me weep, and that’s a good thing.
I recently lost my husband, and Rosen speaks to early grief perfectly, particularly sudden and out of sequence death. His poem on the page I photographed is: “Sad is a place / that is deep and dark / like the space under the bed / Sad is a place / that is high and light / like the sky above my head / When it’s deep and dark / I don’t dare go there / When it’s high and light / I want to be thin air. / The last bit means I don’t want to be here. / I just want to disappear.”If you think this will be too dark: For those who haven’t faced this, you’re right. For those who have lost someone close, particularly if unexpectedly, the book is exactly as dark as we need. Grief is a dark place, and there is nothing wrong with that. It’s a mistake to try to make someone grieving “feel better”, or to suggest they appreciate their grief by making something good out of it.If you want to know the power and poignancy of early grief, and truly understand, buy a copy for yourself too.I bought the book myself, but I would have thanked anyone who gave it to me, and I would have felt that they really get how I’m feeling.On technical matters: The writer tells a simple story of the experience of grief, which is accompanied by watercolor illustrations colored to pair with the mood of the words. The author doesn’t abbreviate the experience, but distills it to its essential elements. And the final page, with no text at all, speaks the most of the silence that accompanies loss.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2018
If you think this will be too dark: For those who haven’t faced this, you’re right. For those who have lost someone close, particularly if unexpectedly, the book is exactly as dark as we need. Grief is a dark place, and there is nothing wrong with that. It’s a mistake to try to make someone grieving “feel better”, or to suggest they appreciate their grief by making something good out of it.
If you want to know the power and poignancy of early grief, and truly understand, buy a copy for yourself too.
I bought the book myself, but I would have thanked anyone who gave it to me, and I would have felt that they really get how I’m feeling.
On technical matters: The writer tells a simple story of the experience of grief, which is accompanied by watercolor illustrations colored to pair with the mood of the words. The author doesn’t abbreviate the experience, but distills it to its essential elements. And the final page, with no text at all, speaks the most of the silence that accompanies loss.
This book made me weep, and that’s a good thing.
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2018
I recently lost my husband, and Rosen speaks to early grief perfectly, particularly sudden and out of sequence death. His poem on the page I photographed is: “Sad is a place / that is deep and dark / like the space under the bed / Sad is a place / that is high and light / like the sky above my head / When it’s deep and dark / I don’t dare go there / When it’s high and light / I want to be thin air. / The last bit means I don’t want to be here. / I just want to disappear.”Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2018
If you think this will be too dark: For those who haven’t faced this, you’re right. For those who have lost someone close, particularly if unexpectedly, the book is exactly as dark as we need. Grief is a dark place, and there is nothing wrong with that. It’s a mistake to try to make someone grieving “feel better”, or to suggest they appreciate their grief by making something good out of it.
If you want to know the power and poignancy of early grief, and truly understand, buy a copy for yourself too.
I bought the book myself, but I would have thanked anyone who gave it to me, and I would have felt that they really get how I’m feeling.
On technical matters: The writer tells a simple story of the experience of grief, which is accompanied by watercolor illustrations colored to pair with the mood of the words. The author doesn’t abbreviate the experience, but distills it to its essential elements. And the final page, with no text at all, speaks the most of the silence that accompanies loss.
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