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A moving meditation on the nature of grief, the passages through it, and the redemptive power of love from the author of the bestselling Making Toast
 

"In Roger Rosenblatt's wise and witty new book, he plays the role of the flâneur, observing and ruminating on life and death, only instead of walking the city streets, he paddles a kayak in a creek not far from home. The kayak evolves as a vantage point from which to view the world; as a metaphor for maintaining momentum and balance in emotionally difficult times; and as an enhancer of solitude, a place to converse with the ghost of his daughter. But it also remains a kayak—the thing itself, olive green with the double paddle, as real as anything."—Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate and author of Sailing Alone around the Room and The Trouble with Poetry