**Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family?** The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to th
The Grief of Others
โ Scribed by Cohen, Leah Hager
- Book ID
- 108600253
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781101547779
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โฆ Synopsis
In the tradition of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, a gripping, generous, and provocative novel chronicling the grief that follows the death of a newborn-and that leads to a family's emotional reawakening.
It begins with loss. John and Ricky Ryrie are stricken by the death of their third child, only fifty-seven hours after his birth. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy, they find themselves pretending not only that little has changed, but that nothing was wrong before this baby came so briefly into their lives. Yet in the aftermath of his death, long-suppressed uncertainties about their relationship come roiling to the surface. A dreadful secret emerges concerning what Ricky knew about her pregnancy and concealed from everyone, even John. And the couple's two older children, grappling with the tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely, perhaps courageously, idiosyncratic ways. Ultimately, though, the grief that was initially so isolating brings the...
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