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Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats
HarperCollins
January 2012
On Sale: January 3, 2012
160 pages
ISBN: 0062084038
EAN: 9780062084033
Kindle: B006FOE8DU
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Non-Fiction
From Roger Rosenblatt, author of the bestsellers Making
Toast and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, comes a moving
meditation on the passages of grief, the solace of solitude,
and the redemptive power of love In Making Toast, Roger Rosenblatt shared the story of his
family in the days and months after the death of his
thirty-eight-year-old daughter, Amy. Now, in Kayak Morning,
he offers a personal meditation on grief itself. “Everybody
grieves,” he writes. From that terse, melancholy observation
emerges a work of art that addresses the universal
experience of loss. On a quiet Sunday morning, two and a half years after Amy’s
death, Roger heads out in his kayak. He observes,“You can’t
always make your way in the world by moving up. Or down, for
that matter. Boats move laterally on water, which levels
everything. It is one of the two great levelers.” Part
elegy, part quest, Kayak Morning explores Roger’s years as a
journalist, the comforts of literature, and the value of
solitude, poignantly reminding us that grief is not apart
from life but encompasses it. In recalling to us what we
have lost, grief by necessity resurrects what we have had.
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