Sleeping Letters - Hardcover

Bragg, Marie-Elsa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178474316X ISBN 13: 9781784743161

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2019

Synopsis

'This is a beautiful book, a remarkable, cadenced recollection of how grief lives in the body. It is poetry as a kind of dance. You have to read it' EDMUND DE WAALA unique, intimate and beautiful exploration of grief, loss, healing and faith, that looks back to the childhood moment when Marie-Elsa R. Bragg's mother committed suicide We sat in the kitchen across the small wooden table from each other. She cried like banks bursting, then silence; like winds blowing through her shoulders, chest bouncing, then long shallow breaths. She ruptured and I watched, still, emotionless. You must stop crying.When Marie-Elsa R. Bragg was just 6 years old, her mother committed suicide. Now, many years later, Marie-Elsa returns to that night. Going back to that moment, inhabiting this defining tragedy, allows for an exploration of the grief but also brings healing as well as the affirmation that it is her experiences as a priest that have carried her. In a unique and remarkable mix of prose and poetry, and written partly as a series of unsent letters to both her mother and father, Sleeping Letters is a way of connecting to past family, an attempt to reconcile with loss, as well as a radical exploration of Marie-Elsas own faith. While harrowing and unforgettable, it is also an immensely beautiful book, with a luminous sense of a daughters love.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178474316X
• ISBN 13: 9781784743161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80