Wild Things: A Geography of Grief

“These trees, these plants I have written to you about have taught me all I needed to know about your death.”



B loves M, her favorite sister.



Then M is gone—taken too young, too suddenly, under the strange and quiet shroud of the pandemic. In the absence that follows, B sets out each day into the vast wilds of Griffith Park with her dog,
walking uphill and down in search of understanding, of peace, of reconciliation.



She talks to her sister in the language of the landscape, sports with her in ...