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What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love
Harper Wave
June 2015
On Sale: June 2, 2015
320 pages
ISBN: 0062357514
EAN: 9780062357519
Kindle: B00N81BCE6
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
When you lose your whole world in a moment, where do you
turn? On a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi, a
Dante scholar and professor at Bard College, found himself
racing to the hospital—his wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half
months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident. In one
terrible instant, Luzzi became both a widower and a
first-time father. In the aftermath of unthinkable
tragedy, Luzzi relied on the support of his Italian
immigrant family, returning to his childhood home to grieve
and care for his infant daughter. But it wasn't until he
turned to The Divine Comedy—a poem he had devoted
his life to studying and teaching—that he learned how to
resurrect his life. Following the same structure as Dante's
epic poem, Luzzi is shepherded out of his own "dark wood,"
passing through the grief-stricken Inferno, the Purgatory of
healing, and ultimately stepping into the Paradise of
rediscovered love. Beautifully written, poignant,
insightful, and unflinchingly honest, In a Dark
Wood is a hybrid of heartrending memoir and a
meditation on the power of great art to give us strength in
our darkest moments. Drawing us into hell and back, it is
Dante's journey, Joseph Luzzi's, and our very own.
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