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“Memorial Days’ reason for being, the centre point, is the sudden loss of the author’s husband, Tony Horwitz. He was on his own, on a book tour. And what a loss. This was a long marriage of two writers, such an important relationship. There wasn’t an illness, so there was no preparation. They were going about in the prime of their lives, and then this sudden loss.” Read more...
The Best Memoirs: The 2026 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist
Grace Talusan, Literary Scholar
“When novelist Geraldine Brooks’s husband, Tony Horwitz, dies while on a book tour, she gets the call from a harried medical resident who can’t get off the phone fast enough. Brooks alternates between memories of those first days and her life three years later on an isolated island in Australia, where she finally takes time to focus on grieving. “ Read more...
