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Written in the wake of the death of celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman's beloved wife, Aura Estrada, Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a tribute to Aura, who she was and who she would have been.
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About the Author:
FRANCISCO GOLDMAN is the author of three novels: The Long Night of White Chickens, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Ordinary Seaman, a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Divine Husband. Goldman is also the author of the non-fiction book, The Art of Political Murder: Who killed the Bishop?, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Economist. Goldman has been a contributing editor for Harper s magazine, and his fiction, journalism and essays have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation grant and the T. R. Fyvel Freedom of Expression Book Award, and was a fellow at the American Academy of Berlin and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He currently directs the Premio Aura Estrada/Aura Estrada Prize. Goldman divides his time between Brooklyn and Mexico City.
Review:
“Passionate and moving....beautifully written... the truth that emerges in this book has less to do with the mystery of [Aura s] death...than with the miracle of the astonishing, spirited, deeply original young woman Goldman so adored....So remarkable is this resurrection that at times I felt the book itself had a pulse. —Robin Romm, The New York Times Book Review (Front cover)
“To call Francisco Goldman s book about the death of his young Mexican wife an elegy hardly represents it. Lament is closer, but insufficient. It is a chain of eruptions, a meteor shower; not just telling but bombarding us in a loss that glitters. With the power and fine temper of its writing, it is as much poem as prose.... Tense set pieces, respectively heartbreaking and chilling...generate the book s propulsive drama. What they propel, though, is its most remarkable achievement: the incandescent portrait of a marriage of opposites. —Richard Eder, The Boston Globe
“Extraordinary...The more deeply you have loved in your life, the more this book will wrench you...In a voice that is alternately lush and naked, lyrical and sardonic, philosophical and wry...Say Her Name will transport you into the most primal joy in the human repertoire—the joy of loving...[It] pushes back against the tides of forgetting, and gives Aura a new body, a literary body, to inhabit—a body so vivid that by the end of the book we feel as though we ourselves have met and loved this woman. —Carolina de Robertis, San Francisco Chronicle
"Say Her Name brings something new to the rime of the grieving survivor: fresh supplies of imagination, ruthlessness and over-the-edge crazy love. ...The intensity, tenderness and heat of this love is extraordinary; how many of us have ever been loved so well? Or would recognize such love, were it not laid out with such intelligence and precision? —Marion Winik, Newsday
“An earthy, sexy book...Say Her Name resonates with sense of place and grasp of character...[Goldman] describes Aura so vividly it is as though she regains life as a free spirit of remarkable imagination. —Carlo Wolff, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“A heartbreaking novel of loss and grief. —Karen Holt, O Magazine
“[Say Her Name] is exhilarating, a testament to love that questions our suppositions about luck, fate, good fortune, and tragedy, and demands our agency in interpreting the narrative arc of an altered life. . . . Goldman s novel stands as an incisive, diamond-sharp act of love. —Jayne Anne Phillips, Vanity Fair
“After Francisco Goldman s wife died in a freak accident, he sought to keep her alive by writing....Thanks, in part, to Goldman s powers of revivification, Aura [is] about as forgettable as Cleopatra.
Both a beautiful evocation of love and loss, and a searing dispatch written from within a personal Ground Zero...[Say Her Name is] the must-read novel of the summer. —Tom Shone, Sunday Times (UK)
“Quietly devastating . . . Powerful . . . As the story builds—inevitably, unbearably—toward Aura s last day, Goldman has so convincingly brought her to life that her death still somehow comes as a shock. . . . Goldman s beautifully written, deeply felt ode to his wife . . . lets you meet this unusual woman through Goldman s lovestruck gaze, and you can t help falling for her a little too. Even after the book ends, the sting of Aura s absence lingers. —Rob Brunner, Entertainment Weekly
“Heartwrenching. -People
“Say Her Name is the real thing—350 mesmerizing pages that don t fit the usual script....Honest and exquisitely written, a...love story with real emotional power. —Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times
“Wrenching...The story --Various
[Audio Review] SAY HER NAME is a beautifully written and beautifully narrated autobiographical novel of love, tragedy, and grief. Francisco Goldman met Aura Estrada when he was 47 and she was 25. He was a successful novelist, and she was a PhD student and emerging writer. Only two years into their marriage, Aura was killed in a freak bodysurfing accident on a Mexican beach. Narrator Robert Fass has an appealing soft tone to his voice, impeccable timing, and an enviable ease switching between English and Mexican Spanish. Even more important is his sensitive rendering of Goldmans emotions from infinite gratitude and awe at meeting and loving Aura to shocking, soul-crushing guilt and loss following her death. Its a stunning production that allows Aura to live on. [Earphones Award] --AudioFile
“To call Francisco Goldman s book about the death of his young Mexican wife an elegy hardly represents it. Lament is closer, but insufficient. It is a chain of eruptions, a meteor shower; not just telling but bombarding us in a loss that glitters. With the power and fine temper of its writing, it is as much poem as prose.... Tense set pieces, respectively heartbreaking and chilling...generate the book s propulsive drama. What they propel, though, is its most remarkable achievement: the incandescent portrait of a marriage of opposites. —Richard Eder, The Boston Globe
“Extraordinary...The more deeply you have loved in your life, the more this book will wrench you...In a voice that is alternately lush and naked, lyrical and sardonic, philosophical and wry...Say Her Name will transport you into the most primal joy in the human repertoire—the joy of loving...[It] pushes back against the tides of forgetting, and gives Aura a new body, a literary body, to inhabit—a body so vivid that by the end of the book we feel as though we ourselves have met and loved this woman. —Carolina de Robertis, San Francisco Chronicle
"Say Her Name brings something new to the rime of the grieving survivor: fresh supplies of imagination, ruthlessness and over-the-edge crazy love. ...The intensity, tenderness and heat of this love is extraordinary; how many of us have ever been loved so well? Or would recognize such love, were it not laid out with such intelligence and precision? —Marion Winik, Newsday
“An earthy, sexy book...Say Her Name resonates with sense of place and grasp of character...[Goldman] describes Aura so vividly it is as though she regains life as a free spirit of remarkable imagination. —Carlo Wolff, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“A heartbreaking novel of loss and grief. —Karen Holt, O Magazine
“[Say Her Name] is exhilarating, a testament to love that questions our suppositions about luck, fate, good fortune, and tragedy, and demands our agency in interpreting the narrative arc of an altered life. . . . Goldman s novel stands as an incisive, diamond-sharp act of love. —Jayne Anne Phillips, Vanity Fair
“After Francisco Goldman s wife died in a freak accident, he sought to keep her alive by writing....Thanks, in part, to Goldman s powers of revivification, Aura [is] about as forgettable as Cleopatra.
Both a beautiful evocation of love and loss, and a searing dispatch written from within a personal Ground Zero...[Say Her Name is] the must-read novel of the summer. —Tom Shone, Sunday Times (UK)
“Quietly devastating . . . Powerful . . . As the story builds—inevitably, unbearably—toward Aura s last day, Goldman has so convincingly brought her to life that her death still somehow comes as a shock. . . . Goldman s beautifully written, deeply felt ode to his wife . . . lets you meet this unusual woman through Goldman s lovestruck gaze, and you can t help falling for her a little too. Even after the book ends, the sting of Aura s absence lingers. —Rob Brunner, Entertainment Weekly
“Heartwrenching. -People
“Say Her Name is the real thing—350 mesmerizing pages that don t fit the usual script....Honest and exquisitely written, a...love story with real emotional power. —Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times
“Wrenching...The story --Various
[Audio Review] SAY HER NAME is a beautifully written and beautifully narrated autobiographical novel of love, tragedy, and grief. Francisco Goldman met Aura Estrada when he was 47 and she was 25. He was a successful novelist, and she was a PhD student and emerging writer. Only two years into their marriage, Aura was killed in a freak bodysurfing accident on a Mexican beach. Narrator Robert Fass has an appealing soft tone to his voice, impeccable timing, and an enviable ease switching between English and Mexican Spanish. Even more important is his sensitive rendering of Goldmans emotions from infinite gratitude and awe at meeting and loving Aura to shocking, soul-crushing guilt and loss following her death. Its a stunning production that allows Aura to live on. [Earphones Award] --AudioFile
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1611855985
- ISBN 13 9781611855982
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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