On Grief

In conversation with Bob Carr, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks talks about the sudden death of her husband, Tony Horwitz, and her attempt to make sense of the void in her new memoir, Memorial Days.

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Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2005 novel March. Her novels Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book and The Secret Chord were New York Times bestsellers, and Year of Wonders was an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages. Her new book, Memorial Days, is a memoir centred on the loss of her husband, Tony Horwitz.

Bob Carr is an Australian retired politician and journalist who served as the 39th premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005. He later entered federal politics as a NSW senator and served as minister for foreign affairs from 2012 to 2013.

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