The Long Goodbye
In thinking about the cultural importance of burials around our upcoming production of A Skull in Connemara, I remembered talk of this book by Meghan O’Roarke.
Says Alice Gregory, “The Long Goodbye might be marketed as a memoir and written in an unflinching first-person voice, but it’s just as much a historical account of mourning rituals and a polemic against a society that sequesters its sufferers. Though surely written as therapy, it’s a book that operates like a syllabus. It shows not only how to heal but also how to help.”
Check out an excerpt from The Long Goodbye at the bottom of the article.
