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Making sense of the unimaginable, natural disasters, struggling with what can be real, remembering, enduring love, details, grief, survivor‘s guilt, haunting, rebuilding a life. Deraniyagala‘s family killed in 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka. 2013

P198 “It still seems far-fetched, my story, even to me. Everyone vanishing an instant, me spinning out from that mud, what is this, some kind of myth? Even now I cannot mouth those words ‘They are all dead.‘“

Touching and poignant without being maudlin, this small book provides a lot of food for thought. On Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine Brooks received the dreaded phone call: your spouse has died. In the crush of all the end-of-life tasks, she doesn‘t take time to fully mourn her husband. In February 2023 she visits a remote island for several weeks of grieving and healing.

Congratulations to the author for winning the LoC American Fiction Prize!

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Would anyone be interested in joining me for a #LMPBC of our own? It‘s not done through Litsy anymore, but I‘d love to do it on our own if a couple of people are interested. I took this picture recently to celebrate the fact that I finally had all of Abbi Waxman‘s books, and might use The Garden of Small Beginnings as my starting book if we decide to make this happen. Of course, I have a lot of others to choose from though. @LitsyEvents

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I lost my brother 10 days ago, on August 10th, from Glioblastoma. Since I knew he wouldn't be here much longer, I got this book, thinking it would help me. The book needed to be edited better. There were sentences that were missing words, sentences that were half duplicated. There was info that I found beneficial in my early days of grief. Even though we had grown apart as adults, we still were brother and sister. That sibling ⬇️

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Catching up on my #AuldLangSpine recs from…2024! 😆 Thank you, @Deblovestoread - this one was outstanding. I‘d been happy to see Rebecca Wait on your list because she seems so beloved here on Litsy. I now see why. Loved the writing, and these characters will stay with me.

It‘s poetry. A love letter. It‘s words to balm an aching soul, words that helped me survive. It‘s a story of magic and depth and grief. It‘s a topic we don‘t tolerate well enough.
I would be honored, to have a few poetry lovers and mothers pick this up. My audience is small but I hope it reaches those who need it. ✨
Saltwater by CordeliaGrey Oriana Allen
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What a lovely and poignant reflection on love, loss and grief. Three years after suddenly losing her husband, Geraldine Brooks retreated to an isolated island to “properly” mourn him in a way she couldn‘t in the days, weeks and months afterward because of all of the tasks that have to be done after a death. Beautifully written.