When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book

By Naja Marie Aidt

Book Overview

An unflinchingly raw and lyrical exploration of a mother's grief and how it transforms her relationship to time, reality, and language.

In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love.

Intensely moving, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back explores what it is 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156689560X
• ISBN13: 9781566895606
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 7.8"