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Tools for Extinction (Paperback)
Denise Rose Hansen; Naja Marie Aidt, Vi Khi Nao, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Joanna Walsh, …
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'Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books
which have such life. It shows us what love is.' Max Porter, author
of Grief is the Thing With Feathers and Lanny 'There is no one
quite like Naja Marie Aidt' Valeria Luiselli 'Devastating, angry,
challenging, fragmented and filled with the beautiful hope that the
love we have for people continues into the world even after they're
gone.' Culturefly 'Fragmented, poetic, informative and truthful,
Aidt faces the greatest loss we can ever know with all the force of
great elegy writers like Anne Carson and Denise Riley. Essential.'
Polly Clark, author of Larchfield and Tiger _______ "I raise my
glass to my eldest son. His pregnant wife and daughter are sleeping
above us. Outside, the March evening is cold and clear. 'To life!'
I say as the glasses clink with a delicate and pleasing sound. My
mother says something to the dog. Then the phone rings. We don't
answer it. Who could be calling so late on a Saturday evening?" In
March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's 25-year-old son, Carl, died in a
tragic accident. When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back
is about losing a child. It is about formulating a vocabulary to
express the deepest kind of pain. And it's about finding a way to
write about a reality invaded by grief, lessened by loss. Faced
with the sudden emptiness of language, Naja finds solace in the
anguish of Joan Didion, Nick Cave, C.S. Lewis, Mallarme, Plato and
other writers who have suffered the deadening impact of loss. Their
torment suffuses with her own as Naja wrestles with words and
contests their capacity to speak for the depths of her sorrow. This
palimpsest of mourning enables Naja to turn over the pathetic,
precious transience of existence and articulates her greatest fear:
to forget. The insistent compulsion to reconstruct the harrowing
aftermath of Carl's death keeps him painfully present, while
fragmented memories, journal entries and poetry inch her closer to
piecing Carl's life together. Intensely moving and quietly
devastating, this is what is it to be a family, what it is to love
and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death's
indomitable resolve.
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