The Light of the World

Elizabeth Alexander 2015

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
grief memoir love loss

Our Take

Alexander's husband collapsed on the treadmill and died and she wrote about the fifteen years of love that preceded it with such tenderness that the grief becomes almost unbearable. This is not about death. It is about what was lost — the particular, irreplaceable dailiness of a shared life.

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