Comfort: A Journey Through Grief

by Ann Hood

Overview

“Rarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance.” —Entertainment Weekly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393336597
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/04/2009
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	4.40(w) x 7.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Ann Hood is the author of the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most, The Knitting Circle, The Red Thread, The Obituary Writer, and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Editorial Reviews

In graceful prose, Comfort bears witness to the heartbreaking particularity of her—of any—loss.”

People

Hood is larger than life, living, loving, and grieving on an operatic scale.

New York Times Book Review

Comfort enriches our lives. . . . I will most likely never eat pasta with butter and Parmesan or cucumbers cut in perfect rounds . . . without thinking of Ann Hood and her daughter. And I have never met either one.”

Los Angeles Times

Comfort is novelist Ann Hood’s utterly harrowing, completely spellbinding memoir of losing her five-year-old daughter, Grace, to a rare form of strep in 2002. . . . [A] spare, gorgeously serpentine narrative. . . . Unforgettable.”

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