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, onl
The Grief of Others
โ Scribed by Cohen, Leah Hager
- Book ID
- 110486139
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 346 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781101547779
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โฆ Synopsis
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 their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves and for their two older children, they find themselves pretending not only that little has changed, but that their marriage, their family, have always been intact. Yet in the aftermath of the baby's death, long-suppressed uncertainties about their relationship come roiling to the surface. A dreadful secret emerges with reverberations that reach far into their past and threaten their future.
The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely- perhaps courageously-idiosyncratic ways. But as the four...
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