01834cam a2200313 4500 2023968810 TxAuBib 20250312120000.0 241009s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593653982 hardcover 059365398X hardcover TxAuBib Brooks, Geraldine, author. Memorial days / Geraldine Brooks. New York, NY : Viking, [2025] 207 pages ; 22 cm. It was Memorial Day, 2019, when Geraldine Brooks received news that her husband, Tony Horwitz, had collapsed and died, far from home, in the middle of his own book tour. The complex tasks required in the face of such a sudden death left her no time to properly grieve for him. Three years later, still feeling broken and bereft, she booked a flight to a remote island off the coast of Tasmania. Alone on a rugged stretch of coast, she revisited a thirty-five-year marriage filled with risk, adventure, humor, and love. There, she pondered the ways other cultures deal with mourning and finally seized the time and space she needed for her own grief. A spare and moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life love affair and a reckoning with the inevitability of loss. 20250312. Brooks, Geraldine. Horwitz, Tony, 1958-2019 Death and burial. Women authors, Australian Biography. Widows Biography. Grief in women. Grief and loss. Death Social aspects Cross-cultural studies. Death & dying. Australia Biography. Autobiographies.