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Jan 1, 2011 · The Grief of Others is a book of two parts. When the story revolves around Paul’s and Biscuit’s issues, it is a poignant story that tugs on the heartstrings, as these two lost children try to grope their way around a larger world in which they have been left to flounder by their grieving parents.
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Sep 4, 2012 · 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 ...
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Sep 15, 2011 · Hager Cohen writes beautifully, with almost poetic observation, but this cannot disguise the plodding plot of The Grief of Others. It's unfortunate that there is an absence of intrigue in the novel - the subject matter is heart-wrenching and could have drawn in even the most emotionally-devoid reader but it doesn't.
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Sep 15, 2011 · THE GRIEF OF OTHERS. ... Susann Cokal, a frequent contributor to the Book Review, is the author of two novels and the director of creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Sep 15, 2011 · 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 ...
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- Leah Hager Cohen
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 ...
The Grief of Others is her best work yet.” – The New York Times Book Review “Cohen's empathy is sure-footed and seemingly boundless; her writing gifts its characters with glints of ordinary human radiance. It is the possibility of this glinting that ultimately becomes Cohen's most powerful gift to us, her readers, as well.”
