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viragohaus's review
2.0
It's hard to know what to make of this.
'A Story of Grief' reads as a magazine colour piece when the questions it asks about performative grief and public safety are large and profound.
Set in large type across a generously spaced forty-four pages, 'A Story of Grief' (2012)' perhaps inevitably feels like it is too close to the events it describes (2012) to be any more than a re-telling. Even so, its generalised phrasing fails to add much insight into the generalised grief felt for a stranger.
These events await greater perspective and a better book.
'A Story of Grief' reads as a magazine colour piece when the questions it asks about performative grief and public safety are large and profound.
Set in large type across a generously spaced forty-four pages, 'A Story of Grief' (2012)' perhaps inevitably feels like it is too close to the events it describes (2012) to be any more than a re-telling. Even so, its generalised phrasing fails to add much insight into the generalised grief felt for a stranger.
These events await greater perspective and a better book.
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