![]() ![]() The prose of the book, much of it resembling poetry, is driven forward by the depth of the narrator's feeling for the man she has loved and lost. ![]() This lament for the betrayal that often accompanies romantic love – in this case the narrator is part of a triangle that involves a married couple – is the heart laid bare, in all its rawness and power. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart It is a beautiful and lyrical look at grief, told by a chorus of mourners. The family travel with the body of their mother in a coffin built by the carpenter son, Cash, and each of the children narrates a part of the journey. This novel tells the story of the adult Bundren children, on their way, by horse and cart, to bury their mother, Addie, in Jefferson, a town 40 miles away from where she has died. ![]() Music was the focus of his life, and I took great comfort from listening to the music he loved during the most intense period of my grief. I have also included a piece of music in the list because my brother was a musician, a classical pianist. In my list, I have included books that speak to multiple types of grief, not just the grief that is experienced when losing a loved one, since even without facing a death, we are often grieving – for an absent love, or a place, or a lost part of our own lives. ![]()
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