A Strange Catechism

Every day she comes and stands, turning slowing, counterclockwise, in the parking lot. She holds in her arms a bundle of infant’s clothes. She is praying, calling for her departed child to return to the nest of her body.

In A Strange Catechism, Justen Ahren relates the story of a mother and her surviving son, as they journey through grief, lose and separation to a deeper understanding of how life is constructed out of what our ‘fingers keep making in the air/ until dawn’— those fleeting thi...