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I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, a Memoir (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593134795)
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xA brilliant, genre-defying work--both memoir and epic poem--about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss
"A bruised and brave love letter from a brother right here to a brother now gone . . . a soaring, unblinking gaze into the meaning of life itself."--Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf my father said
david has taken his own life Adam is in the middle of his own busy life, and approaching a career high in the form of a #1 New York Times bestselling book--when these words from his father open a chasm beneath his feet. I Had a Brother Once is the story of everything that comes after. In the shadow of David's inexplicable death, Adam is forced to re-remember a brother he thought he knew and to reckon with a ghost, confronting his unsettled family history, his distant relationship with tradition and faith, and his desperate need to understand an event that always slides just out of his grasp. This is an expansive and deeply thoughtful poetic meditation on loss and a raw, darkly funny, human story of trying to create a ritual--of remembrance, mourning, forgiveness, and acceptance--where once there was a life.
Author: Adam Mansbach
ISBN-10: 0593134796
ISBN-13: 9780593134795
Publisher: One World
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2021
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2021 pg. 12
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2021
"A bruised and brave love letter from a brother right here to a brother now gone . . . a soaring, unblinking gaze into the meaning of life itself."--Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf my father said
david has taken his own life Adam is in the middle of his own busy life, and approaching a career high in the form of a #1 New York Times bestselling book--when these words from his father open a chasm beneath his feet. I Had a Brother Once is the story of everything that comes after. In the shadow of David's inexplicable death, Adam is forced to re-remember a brother he thought he knew and to reckon with a ghost, confronting his unsettled family history, his distant relationship with tradition and faith, and his desperate need to understand an event that always slides just out of his grasp. This is an expansive and deeply thoughtful poetic meditation on loss and a raw, darkly funny, human story of trying to create a ritual--of remembrance, mourning, forgiveness, and acceptance--where once there was a life.
Author: Adam Mansbach
ISBN-10: 0593134796
ISBN-13: 9780593134795
Publisher: One World
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2021
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.20d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/01/2021 pg. 12
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2021
By Adam Mansbach
xAdam Mansbach is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, the novels Rage Is Back, Angry Black White Boy, and The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), and a dozen other books, most recently the bestselling A Field Guide to the Jewish People, co-written with Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. Mansbach wrote the award-winning screenplay for the Netflix Original Barry, and his next feature film, Super High, starring Andy Samberg, Craig Robinson, and Common, is forthcoming from New Line. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, and The Guardian and on This American Life, The Moth, and All Things Considered.
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