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Grove Press
April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
288 pages ISBN: 0802119816 EAN: 9780802119810 Hardcover
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Fiction
In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a
beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic
Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary,
during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while
body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura’s death by her
family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. Instead, he
wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling his great love and
unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure
love gives way to bottomless pain. Suddenly a widower, Goldman collects everything he can about
his wife, hungry to keep Aura alive with every memory. From
her childhood and university days in Mexico City with her
fiercely devoted mother to her studies at Columbia
University, through their newlywed years in New York City
and travels to Mexico and Europeand always through the
prism of her gifted writingsGoldman seeks her essence and
grieves her loss. Humor leavens the pain as he lives through
the madness of grief and creates a living portrait of a love
as joyous as it is deep and profound. Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny
and accountability, and a tribute to Aura, who she was and
who she would've been.
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