Grief: A Novel

In the tradition of Michael Cunningham's The Hours, a beautiful novel destined to become a classic Reeling from the recent death of his invalid mother, a worn, jaded professor comes to our nation's capital to recuperate from his loss. What he finds there—in his repressed, lonely landlord, in the city's mood and architecture, and in the letters and journals of Mary Todd Lincoln—shows him new, poignant truths about America, yearning, loneliness, and mourning itself. Since Andrew Holleran firs...