Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited to him slowly, over and over again.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah “After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, and the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers.” The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Jeremy Leggatt (translator) This becomes ever more painful and beautiful as the full weight of her loss is realized.“When Isabel Allende’s daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. As the parent of a young child, this reviewer could relate to Hart's memories of Rosalie's precocious nature and intoxicating smile, which reappear from time to time as the book progresses. By mixing up his time line and interspersing characters and scenarios from Rosalie's and Hart's own favorite stories, the reader feels the depth of his grief. His pacing is what makes this book so extremely effective. Hart fills the pages with flashes of the mundane and transcendent experience of parenting a toddler, centering on the incredulous discovery of Rosalie's lifeless body in her crib and drifting through the subsequent months of hazy despair. This beautiful and gut-wrenching book chronicles the sudden, unexplained death of Hart's 23-month-old daughter and the beginning of the lifelong process of grieving that loss.
The death of a child is one of the heaviest subjects imaginable, and to capture that devastation in a very cartoony style, as Hart ( Daddy Lightning) does here, is no small feat.
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