Books
Book review: A grieving woman’s navigation through the unknown and unimaginable
Anne Griffin’s resonant novel The Island of Longing balances many characters with skill and never steers the reader quite where you expect her to go
In 2016, I published a novel in which a child died. Jack’s death itself was only a small part of The Heart of Everything. But if the sinking of the Titanic was the book’s plot, then his accidental demise was the iceberg.
I remember how emotionally difficult it was; writing is an act of the imagination, just as reading is, so I had to imagine the death of my own children in order to honestly ...
