I Had a Brother Once

I Had a Brother Once

by Adam Mansbach
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 13/04/2021

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A brilliant, genre-defying work—both memoir and epic poem—about the struggle for wisdom, grace, and ritual in the face of unspeakable loss


“A bruised and brave love letter from a brother right here to a brother now gone . . . a soaring, unblinking gaze into the meaning of life itself.”—Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf


my father said

david has taken his own life


Adam is in the middle of his own busy life, and approaching a career high in the form of a #1 New York Times bestselling book—when these words from his father open a chasm beneath his feet. I Had a Brother Once is the story of everything that comes after. In the shadow of David’s inexplicable death, Adam is forced to re-remember a brother he thought he knew and to reckon with a ghost, confronting his unsettled family history, his distant relationship with tradition and faith, and his desperate need to understand an event that always slides just out of his grasp. This is an expansive and deeply thoughtful poetic meditation on loss and a raw, darkly funny, human story of trying to create a ritual—of remembrance, mourning, forgiveness, and acceptance—where once there was a life.

ISBN:
9780593134801
9780593134801
Category:
Poetry
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
13-04-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Adam Mansbach

Adam Mansbach's novels include The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), Angry Black White Boy, Rage is Back and The Dead Run. His fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Believer, Granta, the Los Angeles Times and many other publications. Mansbach's 2011 picture book Go the F**k to Sleep was an international bestseller and one of the most talked-about books of the decade. A viral sensation, it has been published in forty languages.

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