Librería 7. Estante 3.

This is an absolutely exquisite book, from the opening first-person experience of death through the third-person narrative of the survivors' pain and recovery. The consequences of war and civil strife, love, fear, sorrow - Hart's language richly evokes the feelings of family members and strangers alike toward one another. Does she reveal the truth about love? Perhaps not. Can, in fact, anyone reveal the truth about another's love? But she makes an entrance into a complexly tangled and fragile yet fierce emotion that can both submerge us into and sustain us through the darkest experience. As others have commented, her most evocative line is "After a tragedy, many survivors are lost." This is the story of those who are almost lost. ( )