![]() Lewis’ “A Grief Observed,” about his own grief after his wife died. ![]() Anticipating her mother’s death, Danticat had started reading C.S. They had nightly devotions together, singing from a French hymnbook, praying and sharing Bible verses. “I have mourned my mother in many ways - mostly by sharing stories about her with family and friends - but writing about my mother is the most active way I have grieved,” she writes.ĭanticat describes how her mother remained tranquil and level-headed during her dying days, including her chemotherapy. While Danticat analyzes death scenes and writers’ reflections on mortal moments from Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston to Albert Camus and Haruki Murakami, her mother’s life and death ground her book. But the way she engages her subject makes this a book almost everyone can appreciate. The Haitian-American novelist’s succinct book is the 13th in a long-running series published by Minneapolis-based Graywolf Press exploring issues in literary writing. Only in this case, the craft is living and the technical challenge under discussion is death. ![]() Edwidge Danticat’s “The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story” can be read as the book version of a craft talk an artist might give to less-experienced colleagues. ![]()
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