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The Light of the World
Grand Central. Apr. 2015. 224p. ISBN 9781455599875. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781455599851. MEMOIR
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Alexander's marriage to her husband, Ficre, was a great love, one filled with his painting, her poetry, their cooking, and an extended family all over the world. When Ficre dies suddenly, the life she has built with him for their two sons in New Haven, CT, seems to disintegrate. This gorgeous, shimmering account from a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry is an homage to the 15-year partnership she and her husband shared. Though Alexander's story is deeply personal, readers who have experienced love and loss will relate to it easily.
VERDICT While it's impossible to avoid comparisons to Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), this work is set apart by the fluid translation of Alexander's poetic ability into sentences so beautiful they beg to be reread. [See Prepub Alert, 10/20/14.]
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