![]() “Boys,” a pair portrayed as one character, confront their mother’s abrupt absence through memory and play, reconstructing stories, drawing pictures, and assembling representations of the parent they no longer have. A scruffy romantic and, like Porter, a Ted Hughes scholar, he sits waiting “for any kind of structured feeling to emerge from the organizational fakery” of his days. The character “Dad” is numb with grief after his wife’s sudden and accidental death. Published last year in England and out today in the U.S., it was shortlisted for both the Guardian First book award and the Goldsmiths Prize and, recently, won the Dylan Thomas Prize. Our delicate cross stitch of bickers.” As heartbreaking as it is full of hope, Porter’s book has received a deservedly positive first response. “We will never fight again, our lovely, quick, template-/ready arguments. It is inventive, darkly funny, and tender. PHOTO COURTESY OF LUCY DICKENSĮnglish editor and writer Max Porter’s debut novel Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Graywolf Press) dramatizes one family’s experience of loss, mourning, and love. ![]()
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