Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Memorial Days: A Memoir

Memorial Days: A Memoir

Brooks, Geraldine

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLiterary Figures

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0593654005
ISBN13: 9780593654002
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 - A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 - A Time Best Memoir of 2025 - Named a Best Book of 2025 by NPR, People, Air Mail, Bookreporter, and Publishers Weekly

Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace as she comes to terms with the ongoing nature of outliving the ones you love most. ... Her memoir is certainly a testament to her own unique loss, but it's moreover a lifeline to others who will find themselves in this familiar, shattered landscape of grief. --The Los Angeles Times

A rich account of marriage and mourning. --The Washington Post

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse

Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape and to-do lists. This is exactly what happened to Geraldine Brooks when her partner of more than three decades, Tony Horwitz - just sixty years old - collapsed and died.

After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine and Tony settled down to raise two boys on Martha's Vineyard. But all of this ended abruptly when, on Memorial Day 2019, Geraldine received the phone call we all dread. The demands were immediate and many. Without space to grieve, the sudden loss became a yawning gulf. Three years later, she flew to a remote island off the coast of Australia to finally give herself time to mourn.

A spare and profoundly moving memoir that joins the classics of the genre, Memorial Days is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between souls that exquisitely captures the joy, agony, and mystery of life.

2 different editions

Also available

Also from

Brooks, Geraldine

View All

Also in

Biographies General

View All