Tony Horwitz's unexpected death in 2019 shocked readers and fans of his insightful writing. His wife, Geraldine Brooks, channels her grief into her memoir, Memorial Days, reflecting on the brutal realities surrounding loss. The book navigates the aftermath of Horwitz's passing and Brooks's attempts to cope as a mother and a writer. Rooted in her Jewish spiritual perspective, she emphasizes the need to retreat and escape emotional confines, exploring how grief transforms life and the writing process.
The opening of her memoir Memorial Days describes in present-tense, fragmented phrases what it was like to be on the receiving end of a call from an ER doc.
This trip, Brooks tells us, represents an effort to escape what Hebrew scriptures call the maytzar, 'the narrow place.'
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