Description: "Kayak Morning" is a moving meditation on the passages of grief, the solace of solitude, and the redemptive power of love, from the bestselling author of "Making Toast" and "Unless It Moves the Human Heart."
Brief description:
Roger Rosenblatt is the author of six off-Broadway plays and eighteen books, including Lapham Rising, Making Toast, Kayak Morning and The Boy Detective. He is the recipient of the 2015 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.
Review Quotes:
"[An] exquisite, restrained little memoir filled with both hurt and humor." - NPR's All Things Considered
"[MAKING TOAST] is about coping with grief, caring for children and creating an ad hoc family for as long as this particular configuration is required, but mostly it's a textbook on what constitutes perfect writing and how to be a class act." - Carolyn See, The Washington Post
"Rosenblatt...sets a perfect tone and finds the right words to describe how his family is coping with their grief... It may seem odd to call a book about such a tragic event charming, but it is. There is indeed life after death, and Rosenblatt proves that without a doubt." - USA Today
"There are circumstances in which prose is poetry, and the unornamented candor of Rosenblatt's writing slowly attains to a sober sort of lyricism." - Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
"Beautiful and moving." - New York Times
"Sad but somehow triumphant, this memoir is a celebration of family, and of how, even in the deepest sorrow, we can discover new links of love and the will to go on." - O, the Oprah Magazine
"Hauntingly lovely." - Christian Science Monitor