Memorial Days: A Memoir

Heather's Pick

“Memorial Days quietly took my breath away. Brooks lost her husband, the equally-awarded writer Tony Horwitz, when at 60 and apparently in the best of health, he dropped dead on his way to work. In this exquisitely written memoir, Brooks invites us into their marriage, their family, what she learned about our health system, and most poignantly into her coming to terms with what it means to grieve and survive it. Alternating between her home on Martha’s Vineyard and time she spent on a remote island in her home country Australia where she eventually went to truly let herself feel and work through the pain of her loss. In the spirit of such great books as Calvin Trillin’s About Alice or Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking– Memorial Days is a gift.”