Grief Is the Thing With Feathers
by Max Porter
Buy on AmazonIn his masterful debut novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter offers a poetic and beautifully rendered meditation on love, grief and the transformative power of art. Told in compressed yet striking prose, it centers on a husband — a father of two boys — who is trying to process his wife’s sudden, accidental death. Each sentence and page carries the air of a song, drawing in the reader with its deep wisdom and dazzling language.
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"In his masterful debut novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter offers a poetic and beautifully rendered meditation on love, grief and the transformative power of art. Told in compressed yet striking prose, it centers on a husband — a father of two boys — who is trying to process his wife’s sudden, accidental death. Each sentence and page carries the air of a song, drawing in the reader with its deep wisdom and dazzling language."
NPR Books We Love — 2016 · apps.npr.org
""Grief Is the Thing With Feathers," by Max Porter. It's part bereavement counselor, part anger management."
By the Book: Karin Slaughter · nytimes.com