Grief is the thing with feathers
Motherless families
Widowers
Bereavement
Mothers
Grief
Fathers and sons
Fiction, family life
Fiction, family life, general
Fiction, psychological
Death
New York Times reviewed
Fiction
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitt…
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