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Book review: Pulitzer Prize-winning Geraldine Brooks mourns her husband’s death in Memorial Days
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Geraldine Brooks' Memorial Days is an honest journal of her experience with grief.
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By Geraldine Brooks
Memoir/Viking/Paperback/207 pages/$28.01
Some religious traditions prescribe strict timeframes for mourning. In Orthodox Judaism, a mourner sits shiva for seven days, withdrawing from the world and its demands, before his or her first walk outside the house is accompanied by friends.
