Max Porter

Originally published: London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 2015.

A Novel

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Mari-Claire Parrin

Júlia Bertoldi

Celine

There's grief and there's impractical obsession.

Levi-Mae 

‘For a souvenir, for a warning, for a lick of night in the morning.’ 

‘She was not busy dying, and there is no detritus of care, she was simply busy living, and then she was gone.’

‘and we are fifty feet out to sea being chewed apart by sadness.’

‘I miss her so much it is a vast golden prince, a concert hall, a thousand trees, a lake, nine thousand buses, a million cars, twenty million birds and more. The whole city is my missing her.’

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