Dimensions
140 x 210 x 10mm
In 'Making Toast', Roger Rosenblatt gave us the story of his family and their survival after the death of his 38-year-old daughter, Amy. Now, in 'Kayak Morning', he gives us a personal meditation on grief itself. "Everybody grieves" he writes. From that terse, melancholy observation emerges a work of art that addresses the universal experience of grief.
On a quiet Sunday morning in Quoge, New York, just off the coast of Long Island, Roger Rosenblatt heads out in the kayak he's taken up paddling since Amy's death. "You can't always make your way in the world by moving up. Or down, for that matter. Boats move laterally. Boats and water. They are two of the three great levelers," writes Roger. And it's from that level vantage point that he moves through this slim, beautifully crafted memoir.
As 'Kayak Morning' explores Roger's years as a journalist chronicling children of war, to his own childhood, to the solace of literature, it reminds readers that grief is not apart from life-it encompasses life. In recalling to us what we have lost, grief by necessity resurrects what we have had.
A nuanced and finally surprising exploration of life in the wake of insurmountable loss, 'Kayak Morning' gracefully articulates the geometry of sorrow, offering readers an unsentimental and deeply moving account of the possibility of redemption against all odds.
