Geraldine Brooks

"Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz ... collapsed and died on a Washington, D.C. sidewalk ... The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf. Three years...