{"product_id":"the-flower-bearers-rachel-eliza-griffiths-9798217341412","title":"The Flower Bearers","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this moving memoir, an acclaimed poet and novelist tells the remarkable story of the year when her life and her future were irrevocably changed, turning an impossibly difficult chapter of her life into a beacon of sisterhood, love, and growth\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn September 24, 2021, Rachel Eliza Griffiths married her husband, the novelist Salman Rushdie. On the same day, hundreds of miles of away, Griffiths' closest friend and chosen sister, the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, who was expected to speak at the wedding, died suddenly. Eleven months later, as Griffiths attempted to piece together her life as a newlywed with heartbreak in one hand and immense love in the other, a brutal attack nearly killed her husband. As trauma compounded trauma, Griffiths realized that in order to survive her grief, she would need to mourn not only her friend, but the woman she had been on her wedding day, a woman who had also died that day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the process of rebuilding a self, Griffiths chronicles her friendship with Moon, the seventeen years since their meeting at Sarah Lawrence College. Together, they embraced their literary foremothers--Lucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, to name a few--and fought to embrace themselves as poets, artists, and Black women. Alongside this unbreakable bond, Griffiths weaves the story of her relationship with Rushdie, of the challenges they have faced and the unshakeable devotion that endures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Flower Bearers\u003c\/i\u003e, Griffiths inscribes the trajectories of two transformational relationships with grace and honesty, chronicling the beauty and pain that comes with opening oneself fully to love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Eliza Griffiths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798217341412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Large Print Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Rachel Eliza Griffiths","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47304723923199,"sku":"9798217341412","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d1af6549-9ea5-4d35-9250-5a0394f648ef.jpg?v=1758828969","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-flower-bearers-rachel-eliza-griffiths-9798217341412","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}