Portland Public Library

Say her name, Francisco Goldman

eng

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fiction

Say her name

711989074

Francisco Goldman

Thorndike Press large print core

In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married the beautiful young writer Aura Estrada. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. Instead, he wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain