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Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir

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I Index Overall Rating

Readers

35/100

Critics

67/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Kathryn Davis

Publisher:

Graywolf Press

Date:

March 1, 2022

A memoir centered on the death of the author's husband forms a study on the joys and frustrations of their marriage, the passage of time, and how life and imagination influence each other.

What The Reviewers Say

Molly Young,
The New York Times
How could so much consciousness be packed into such a small object?.
Donna Seaman,
Booklist
... [an] exquisite, lightning-bolt bright, zigzagging, and striking musing on the self, life, death, and the endlessly provocative jumble of the sublime and the absurd, the comic and the tragic..

Kirkus
... profound.

Publishers Weekly
... lithe and cerebral.