Once More We Saw Stars Summary
Jayson Greene

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In his moving, heartbreaking memoir of grief, Jayson Greene recounts in the first person, present tense, the year and a half of agony following the unexpected death of his two year-old daughter Greta, who was struck by a falling brick on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. His account consists of more than a mere primal scream of grief, chronicling a reorientation toward spirituality and greater meaning in the wake of this profound tragedy, and ends on a note of hope with the birth of his son, Harrison.