Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over eighty books on a wide array of subjects, including the award-winning The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. He is also the author of the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world's longest-running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street. His books have been translated into forty-six languages. Alexander McCall Smith is Professor Emeritus of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh and holds honorary doctorates from thirteen universities.
"... Elizabeth McCracken does not howl out her loss. She is
devastatingly calm and in this matches measure for measure her own
fine writing. By the end of this memoir you will have held a
beautiful child in your hands and you will have acknowledged him.
This book is an extraordinary gift to us all."--Alice Sebold,
author of The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon
"... McCracken writes with such clarity and immediacy ...a writer
who rises to the human complexity of grief with all her powers, and
all her heart."--Mark Doty, author of Dog Years
"A fascinating, word-perfect and bittersweet memoir."--Elinor
Lipman, Miami Herald
"Reading it is a mysteriously enlarging experience. It could pair
neatly with Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking: it's hard
to imagine two more rigorous, unsentimental guides to enduring the
very bottom of the scale of human emotion."--Lev Grossman, Time
"Stunning...it is a triumph of her will and her writing that she
has turned her tragedy into a literary gift."--PW (Starred
Review)
"What an extraordinary book - joy and sorrow all mixed together on
every page. Elizabeth McCracken is amazing."--Mameve Medwed, author
of Of Men and Their Mothers
wildly important book." Los Angeles Times
Boston Globe
Washington Post
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