The Grief of Others Paperback - 2012

Details

• Title The Grief of Others
• Author Leah Hager Cohen
• Binding Paperback
• Edition Reprint
• Pages 400
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
• Date 2012-09-04
• Features Price on Product - Canadian
• ISBN 9781594486128 / 1594486123
• Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
• Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
• Ages 18 to UP years
• Grade levels 13 - UP
• Themes
  • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Topical: Family
• Library of Congress subjects Marriage, Grief
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC

“The Grief of Others is an engrossing and revealing look at a family sinking beneath the weight of a terrible secret. Leah Hager Cohen writes about difficult subjects with unfailing compassion and insight.”—Tom Perrotta, New York Times–bestselling author of Little Children
“Leah Hager Cohen's new novel is a perceptive, absorbing drama about the complex bonds of the modern American family and the treacherous paradox of the way we live now. Somehow, the more open and flexible we try to become as spouses and parents, the more emotional risks we take—and the more secrets we keep. I love how deeply Cohen delves into the hearts of all her characters, bringing them fully alive, from their most heroic strivings to their darkest flaws.”—Julia Glass, author of The Widower’s Tale

“How does a family transcend its own pain?  How do the secrets we keep shape our lives and the lives of those we love?  In this gracefully written, elegantly structured novel, Leah Hagar Cohen has created an indelible cast of characters whose story is at once wrenching and redemptive.  This is a beautiful book.”—Dani Shapiro, author of Family History
 
“The Grief of Others is a gorgeous, absorbing, intricately told tale of one family on the brink of collapse, as well as an intimate exploration of art and its place in our lives.  Leah Hager Cohen expertly juggles six characters and all their needs, yearning, wounds, and secrets with tremendous skill and—even more importantly—deep and tender compassion. She is a masterful writer on every level.”—Lily King, author of Father of the Rain
 
“The Grief of Others is delicate, haunting, and lovely, and very difficult to leave on the shelf.”—Susanna Daniel, author of Stiltsville
 
“A wise and compassionate novel that looks frankly at the ways members of a family can wound and betray each other, even when trying to do just the opposite.  Leah Hager Cohen is particularly brave in her portrait of Ricky and John's marriage, faltering after a traumatic loss.  Readers will be tempted to villify Ricky, but she's much too complex for that.  Despite the lies, subterfuges and silences these characters inflict on each other, there are no villains here, just a family trying to carry on in a world that feels increasingly unreliable, and at times unhinged.”—Suzanne Berne, author of The Ghost at the Table