Rapoport’s Toronto-set novel unfolds over the six days during which Eve and her family sit shiva after the death of her sister, Tam
Shortly after Tam, a successful broadcaster and mother still in her thirties, dies of cancer, it becomes apparent to her sister, Eve, that she took a secret to the grave: a secret she seems to want Eve to puzzle out. Woven through with themes of love, ambition and betrayal, Nessa Rapoport’s Toronto-set second novel,, unfolds over the six days during which Eve and her family sit shiva. The Toronto-born Rapoport is also the author of a memoir,.
I knew that Eve and Tam argued so intensely before Tam died that they stopped speaking. And I knew that after the funeral, Eve discovered a secret about Tam, a secret that changes the way Eve sees her sister and her own future.
The frayed fabric can be repaired, even if they are no longer here. Or we can come to peace in ways we couldn’t when they were alive. Or we see that they live in us – sometimes hilariously.Loss and grief have figured prominently in your work before, most directly inIn my late thirties, I had been to one funeral. Suddenly, I was booking flights from New York City to Toronto, as my grandmother, my uncle, and others I loved left the world.
The feelings elicited by grief are raw, elemental – but sometimes awakening. The world is stripped of the defenses that carry us through our days, that keep us, as George Eliot says, “well wadded with stupidity.”
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