Sleeping Letters by MarieElsa R. Bragg Paperback Book 9781529924794

A unique intimate and beautiful exploration of grief loss healing and faithThis is a beautiful book a remarkable cadenced recollection of how grief lives in the body It is poetry as a kind of dance You have to read it EDMUND DE WAALWe sat in the kitchen across the small wooden table from each other She cried like banks bursting then silence like winds blowing through her shoulders chest bouncing then long shallow breaths She ruptured and I watched still emotionless You must stop cryingWhen MarieElsa was just six years old her mother took her own life Now many years later she returns to that night Going back to that moment inhabiting this defining tragedy allows for an exploration of the grief but also brings healingWritten partly as a series of unsent letters to both her mother and father Sleeping Letters is a way of connecting to past family an attempt to reconcile with loss as well as a radical exploration of MarieElsas own faith It is an unforgettable book with a luminous sense of a daughters lossWith a Foreword by Rowan WilliamsTruly remarkable This book carries its readers to a place where inhibitions and fears about loss and death give way to something more hopeful and in...