HarperCollins
January 2012
On Sale: January 3, 2012
160 pages ISBN: 0062084038 EAN: 9780062084033 Kindle: B006FOE8DU Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
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. βEverybody grieves,β 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 Amyβs death, Roger heads out in his kayak. He observes,βYou canβt 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.β Part elegy, part quest, Kayak Morning explores Rogerβs 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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