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Comfort Ann Hood

Comfort By Ann Hood

Comfort by Ann Hood


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Summary

Rarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance. - Entertainment Weekly

Comfort Summary

Comfort: A Journey Through Grief by Ann Hood

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.

Comfort Reviews

Comfort 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
Comfort 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
Hood is larger than life, living, loving, and grieving on an operatic scale. -- New York Times Book Review
In graceful prose, Comfort bears witness to the heartbreaking particularity of her-of any-loss. -- People

About Ann Hood

Ann Hood is the author of eleven books, including the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most and The Knitting Circle, and the memoirs Comfort: A Journey Through Grief and Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York City.

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GOR011688835
9780393336597
039333659X
Comfort: A Journey Through Grief by Ann Hood
Used - Like New
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
20090512
194
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