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A rupture in time

Loss memoir as empathy
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April 2025, no. 474

Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks

Hachette, $32.99 hb, 212 pp

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A rupture in time

Loss memoir as empathy
by
April 2025, no. 474

Tony Horwitz, fêted American journalist-historian, died in 2019 – on the last Monday in May, a day when America ritually honours its war dead and heralds the beginning of summer. Horwitz was sixty. For his wife, Australian journalist and novelist Geraldine Brooks, his death was more than an ironic anomaly: it was an inconceivable rupture in time:

Memorial Days

Memorial Days

by Geraldine Brooks

Hachette, $32.99 hb, 212 pp

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ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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