Praises for Shivah
“‘I didn’t know which mother to grieve,’ Lisa Solod writes in her closely observed and heartbreaking novel Shivah. As her mother sinks deeply into Alzheimer’s, Leah must come to terms with a broken relationship that now will never have time to heal. With a journalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart, Solod puts her character on a quest for the pearl of peace in the dark
water of bitterness and loss—a painful journey that will leave readers deeply moved.”
—Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean
“Solod gives her readers a command performance—one that leaves the reader filled with empathy and sympathy both.”
—Linda Gray Sexton, author of Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton and Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide
“‘But grief has its own timeline,’ just like these words, Shivah honors and reveals Lisa Solod’s ability to cut into the soul of grief. I felt privileged to be let into the multilayered relationship between a daughter and her mother.”
—Carly Israel, author of Seconds and Inches
“Shivah is a beautiful, moving meditation on the multiple, complex, and often conflicting layers of grief. Through her narrator’s spiraling introspection, Solod asks what it means to lose someone long before you’ve lost them, to grieve what might have been as well as what was.”
—Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother’s Lovers
Reviews
“…Shivah works to peel back the complexities behind not only the women of this family, but the emotional drainage that one experiences when forced to grieve a loved one while they’re yet still alive—even as the concept of what it means to be a “loved one” gets continually challenged in this family.”
—Nia Dickens, Sinking City (University of Miami)
“The prose is warm, flowing, and textured, mixing prose with poetry, quotes, and journal entries. Written as a detailed character study, it explores the realities of living with a difficult parent…Shivah is an introspective novel in which a daughter trades her angry resentment for compassion and love after her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.”
—Erika Harlitz Kern, Foreword Reviews
Mentions
- University of Miami, Sinking City – A Conversation with Lisa Solod
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