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Is keeping a solution from a spouse always an work of infidelity? And what cost will such a secret exact on a family group? The Ryries have experienced a damage: the loss of life of a baby just 57 hours after his labor and birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, make an effort to go back to their previous lives. Attempting to get back a semblance of normalcy for themselves and because of their two older children, they end up pretending not just that little has altered, but that their matrimony, their family, will always be intact. Yet in the aftermath of the baby's loss of life, long-suppressed uncertainties about their romantic relationship come roiling to the top. A dreadful solution emerges with reverberations that reach far into their history and threaten their future. The couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, giving an answer to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely---perhaps courageously---idiosyncratic ways. But as the four family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, plus they all end up growing more alert to the sadness and burdens of others---to the grief that is part of every individuals life but that also provides within it the power to bring us mutually. Moving, psychologically serious, and gorgeously written, The Grief of Others asks how exactly we balance personal autonomy with the intimacy of romantic relationships, how exactly we balance private decisions with the obligations of belonging to a family group, and how exactly we take measure of our very own sorrows in a global rife with hurting. This novel shows how one family, by finally allowing itself to experience the distributed quality of grief, is able to rekindle tenderness and hope.
