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Marcie Hershman
Grief, Love and What Endures
"A wise, lyrical and deeply moving auscultation of a mourning heart and its possibilities for solace."
--Publishers Weekly
In Speak to Me, acclaimed novelist Marcie Hershman asks what endures after the death of a loved one. Drawing on her brother's newly discovered Jewish faith during his long illness, as well as childhood memories and the sound of his voice, she offers a heartbreaking meditation on grief and remembrance.
"This book, like a friend, comes to enlighten and console its every reader."
--James Carroll, author of Constantine's Sword
"Hershman feels her way through individual and family memory, philosophy, history, religion, and psychology into realms I haven't been to before, and leaves a loving record of their lives so potent that she made me grieve for people I've never met."
--Rosellen Brown, author of Half a Heart
"A passionate meditation on the sound of others' voices. . . . If the book weren't so beautifully written, it would be almost too painful to read."
--Amanda Heller, The Boston Globe
"It struggles with silence but it exhales lifeaffirming sound."
--Cynthia Dettelbach, Cleveland Jewish News
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