The Flower Bearers
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The Flower Bearers
Narrateur(s):
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
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On September 24, 2021, Rachel Eliza Griffiths married her husband, the novelist Salman Rushdie. On the same day, hundreds of miles away, Griffiths’ closest friend and chosen sister, the poet Kamilah Aisha Moon, who was expected to speak at the wedding, died suddenly. Eleven months later, as Griffiths attempted to piece together her life as a newlywed with heartbreak in one hand and immense love in the other, a brutal attack nearly killed her husband. As trauma compounded trauma, Griffiths realized that in order to survive her grief, she would need to mourn not only her friend, but the woman she had been on her wedding day, a woman who had also died that day.
In the process of rebuilding a self, Griffiths chronicles her friendship with Moon, the seventeen years since their meeting at Sarah Lawrence College. Together, they embraced their literary foremothers—Lucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, to name a few—and fought to embrace themselves as poets, artists, and Black women. Alongside this unbreakable bond, Griffiths weaves the story of her relationship with Rushdie, of the challenges they have faced and the unshakeable devotion that endures.
In The Flower Bearers, Griffiths inscribes the trajectories of two transformational relationships with grace and honesty, chronicling the beauty and pain that comes with opening oneself fully to love.
Ce que les critiques en disent
“The Flower Bearers is a memoir of duality, of intoxicating love and excruciating loss. Here is a poet plying her tools in the service of literature’s most vital work: describing life and how to bear it.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Memorial Days
“In prose as luminous as her verse, Rachel Eliza Griffiths has written a testament to the human spirit’s ability to withstand a sundering—and to emerge with a heart made wider by the breaking.”—Suleika Jaouad, author of Between Two Kingdoms
“With the sensitivity of an artist and the intimacy of a faithful friend, Griffiths offers us a searing reminder that to live is to insist on love, relentlessly.”—Qian Julie Wang, author of Beautiful Country
“This powerful memoir sings at the intersection of female friendship, eldest daughterhood, ravaging grief, surprise romance, and the Black poetry scene.”—Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of My Broken Language
“Every page of this book reads like an offering, reminding us how we all endure—and can even bloom—through the beauty and the breaking.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts
“Monumental, profound, and gorgeous, The Flower Bearers is a dazzling hat-tip to our iconic literary ancestors—Lorde, Baldwin, Morrison—and poetic tribute to a new one: Moon.”—MK Asante, author of Buck: A Memoir
“Unsparing and full-throated . . . Griffiths’s call to bear witness to and make sense of the gut-wrenching pain of loss is at its core an exploration of capacity, resilience, and the deeply human need to remain open to love in all its forms.”—A. M. Homes, author of The Mistress’s Daughter
“Rachel Eliza Griffiths has knitted together, from grief, rage, and love, a remarkable memoir: searching and tender and filled with something like grace.”—Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes
“This profoundly felt account moves between the raw, the lyrical, and the elegiac as it seeks the light of healing.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“In this astounding memoir, Griffiths offers a death-defying loop of triumphant love across life’s infernal torments. This is no mere book but a generational blooming.”—Canisia Lubrin, author of The Dyzgraphxst
“A beautiful and immensely powerful book about love, grief, and finding a way to be in a forever-altered world.”—Julia Samuel, Sunday Times bestselling author of Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving
“In prose as luminous as her verse, Rachel Eliza Griffiths has written a testament to the human spirit’s ability to withstand a sundering—and to emerge with a heart made wider by the breaking.”—Suleika Jaouad, author of Between Two Kingdoms
“With the sensitivity of an artist and the intimacy of a faithful friend, Griffiths offers us a searing reminder that to live is to insist on love, relentlessly.”—Qian Julie Wang, author of Beautiful Country
“This powerful memoir sings at the intersection of female friendship, eldest daughterhood, ravaging grief, surprise romance, and the Black poetry scene.”—Quiara Alegría Hudes, author of My Broken Language
“Every page of this book reads like an offering, reminding us how we all endure—and can even bloom—through the beauty and the breaking.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts
“Monumental, profound, and gorgeous, The Flower Bearers is a dazzling hat-tip to our iconic literary ancestors—Lorde, Baldwin, Morrison—and poetic tribute to a new one: Moon.”—MK Asante, author of Buck: A Memoir
“Unsparing and full-throated . . . Griffiths’s call to bear witness to and make sense of the gut-wrenching pain of loss is at its core an exploration of capacity, resilience, and the deeply human need to remain open to love in all its forms.”—A. M. Homes, author of The Mistress’s Daughter
“Rachel Eliza Griffiths has knitted together, from grief, rage, and love, a remarkable memoir: searching and tender and filled with something like grace.”—Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes
“This profoundly felt account moves between the raw, the lyrical, and the elegiac as it seeks the light of healing.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“In this astounding memoir, Griffiths offers a death-defying loop of triumphant love across life’s infernal torments. This is no mere book but a generational blooming.”—Canisia Lubrin, author of The Dyzgraphxst
“A beautiful and immensely powerful book about love, grief, and finding a way to be in a forever-altered world.”—Julia Samuel, Sunday Times bestselling author of Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving
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