Memorial Days: A Memoir
Will surely join the other classics delivered to new widows by their literary friends. In significant ways, it’s more useful and inspiring than some of the others.
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Intensely intimate and candid ... Brooks frames her book in two separate narratives; each amplifies the potency of the other ... Brooks captures the striking coincidences that marked his death with a poignancy tempered by her keen ability as a storyteller ... Unlike others, this memoir, delicately written but without any precious patter, frames itself as a book of days. Overwrought metaphors aside, grief is less of an ocean and more of a series of days ... A book that is meant to be read slowly.
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Brooks is careful to calibrate her grief against larger-scale disasters ... The opposite of padded. If anything, it’s a little overlean and eked-out, 200-odd pages aired by paragraph breaks. Brooks seems brittle still, but writing is her way through, and now her solo livelihood.
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