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It's oh so quietI'll be honest, when I started reading the first story in this collection I was underwhelmed. Nothing was happening. And then gradually the essence of the story bloomed into a painful, delicate portrayal of loss and grief. These stories are difficult to read, imbued with a sense of quiet despair.A great collection, but be prepared to need a few moments alone to recover afterwards.
I really enjoyed James Everington's trio of hauntings. They're all very different approaches to grief, and the hauntings that go with that. Sometimes we see a haunting here as a manifestation of that extreme grief, and the emotion is captured in each story with great care. We have the loss of partners in the first and last stories, and of parents in the second. Each is done in a different way, whether that be in coming to terms with the loss, being forced to face it, or just letting yourself go
Grief. That most palpable of emotional responses. Yet rare is the time that a writer adequately captures it. Happily, James Everington is able to succeed in the three stories offered here, each providing moving and realistic portrayals of people trying their best to either hold on or purge themselves of anything related to their own devastating loss, whether it be material or, extremely, their own being.The deaths of loved ones (whether it be partners or parents) is the common thread throughout
Everington is the only author I've come across that depicts grief as well as Stephen King does in Pet Sematary. I liked the first story the most and enjoyed the other two almost as much. Wonderful writing.
I've recently read an interesting book by Irvin Yalom about the fear of death; our own death, that of a partner or a parent, and how to cope with it. I read it more as a study, as it is intended I suppose, rather than for comfort. While it was a good read, from a clinical point of view, I got it out of my system quite easily.Death has always been an awkward topic for me. I never know what to say or how to feel. I'm not even sure if I know what grief means, and most times I just try to move forwa...
