But is there truly room for another memoir in this field? What else can be said about widowhood and the tragic absence of a ...

There is Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking,” which ... “Memorial Days,” Geraldine Brooks’ memoir of the sudden death of her husband, writer Tony Horwitz, is not just another ...

When, without warning, Geraldine Brooks’s husband ... World”) and Joan Didion (“The Year of Magical Thinking”). And yet with this slim volume, Brooks makes that subgenre of memoir her ...

When I read “Year of Wonders” in 2002, I felt like I was in the presence of literary greatness ... the family members who are left behind will be as prepared as they can be. Thank you, Geraldine ...

In “Memorial Days,” Geraldine Brooks retreats to an island off Australia ... Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking.” Horwitz was no fan. “Name & product dropping.

The new book “Memorial Days,” by Geraldine Brooks, begins with a phone call in 2019. A doctor at a hospital in Washington, D.C., tells Brooks that her husband had collapsed and died on a sidewalk.

This past year, Sloane Crosley published an acclaimed ... The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Geraldine Brooks explores all this in her intensely intimate and candid “Memorial Days: A Memoir ...

Geraldine Brooks. Photo: Will Carne. In 2019, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks received a phone call. She was halfway through her new novel, Horse, and had settled into a period of ...

Geraldine Brooks, author of "Memorial Days: A Memoir." —Randi Baird Geraldine and Tony’s wedding in 1984, at her sister’s house in Tourrettes-sur-Loup, France.