Already a successful novelist, Alexandra Marshall has written a thrilling memoir that redefines the genre. It pairs diversity with aristocracy in an unprecedented way. Everyone who wants to write should read this book!
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The Silence of Your Name is a moving and heartbreaking memoir, a beautiful and haunting exploration of love and loss — and love again.
A rare form of memoir. Deeply introspective, insightful, surprising, gripping — and gorgeously written.
An eloquent countermove against the erasure that follows a suicide, Alexandra Marshall’s tender, layered memoir is an exploration of how her first husband’s death shaped her without being allowed to entirely define her. The burnished clarity of her narrative is an honor to him, to herself, and to her readers.
Alexandra Marshall’s powerful and beautifully moving memoir is a courageous and compassionate meditation on life and one woman’s journey to make sense of a shocking loss, while also paying generous attention to the lives around her and to the future.
Marshall is relentless in her quest for understanding and release from grief and guilt. The journey takes a lifetime, but wisdom comes incrementally and her readers partake eagerly at each stage until we, too, have learned that grief may be transformed into love — and brilliant, soothing prose.