Synopses & Reviews
'In 2002, Ann Hood\"s five-year-old daughter Grace died suddenly from a virulent form of strep throat. Stunned and devastated, the family searched for comfort in a time when none seemed possible. Hood\'\"an accomplished novelist\'\"was unable to read or write. She could only reflect on her lost daughter\'\"\'the way she looked splashing in the bathtub ... the way we sang \'Eight Days a Week.\"\' One day, a friend suggested she learn to knit. Knitting soothed her and gave her something to do. Eventually, she began to read and write again. A semblance of normalcy returned, but grief, in ever new and different forms, still held the family. What they could not know was that comfort would come, and in surprising ways. Hood traces her descent into grief and reveals how she found comfort and hope again\'\"a journey to recovery that culminates with a newly adopted daughter.'
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" is novelist Ann Hood's utterly harrowing, completely spellbinding memoir of losing her five-year-old daughter, Grace, to a rare form of strep in 2002. . . . [A] spare, gorgeously serpentine narrative. . . . Unforgettable." Elle
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" enriches our lives. . . . I will most likely never eat pasta with butter and Parmesan or cucumbers cut in perfect rounds . . . without thinking of Ann Hood and her daughter. And I have never met either one." Los Angeles Times
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"In graceful prose, bears witness to the heartbreaking particularity of her--of any--loss." People
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"Hood is larger than life, living, loving, and grieving on an operatic scale." New York Times Book Review
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"Rarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance." --
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A moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief, and learning to love again.
In 2002, Ann Hood's five-year-old daughter Grace died suddenly from a virulent form of strep throat. Stunned and devastated, the family searched for comfort in a time when none seemed possible. What they could not know was that comfort would come, and in surprising ways. In Comfort, Hood traces her descent into grief and reveals the people and places where she found hope once again.
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A moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief, and learning to love again.
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A moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief, and learning to love again.
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A moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, survivinggrief, andlearning to loveagain.
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'\'Rarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance.\' \'\"
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Comfortis novelist Ann Hood"s utterly harrowing, completely spellbinding memoir of losing her five-year-old daughter, Grace, to a rare form of strep in 2002. . . . [A] spare, gorgeously serpentine narrative. . . . Unforgettable.Comfortenriches our lives. . . . I will most likely never eat pasta with butter and Parmesan or cucumbers cut in perfect rounds . . . without thinking of Ann Hood and her daughter. And I have never met either one.In graceful prose, Comfortbears witness to the heartbreaking particularity of her--of any--loss.Hood is larger than life, living, loving, and grieving on an operatic scale.
About the Author
Ann Hood is the editor of Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting and the best-selling author of The Knitting Circle, The Red Thread, Comfort, and, most recently, An Italian Wife, among other works. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, a Best American Food Writing Award, a Best American Travel Writing Award, and the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.