Geraldine Brooks’ raw, gentle grief memoir has helped me navigate my own mourning
- Written by Kathryn Shine, Associate Professor, Journalism, Curtin University
On May 27 2019, acclaimed Australian writer Geraldine Brooks received a call from the emergency department of a hospital in Washington DC. Her American husband of 35 years, Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, had collapsed while in DC promoting his latest book. He was pronounced dead soon after arriving at the hospital.
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