“In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman
married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican
hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited
holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura’s
death 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. Suddenly a widower,
Goldman collects everything he can about his wife, hungry to keep Aura alive
with every memory. From her childhood and university days in Mexico City with
her fiercely devoted mother to her studies at Columbia University, through
their newlywed years in New York City and travels to Mexico and Europe—and
always through the prism of her gifted writings—Goldman seeks her essence and
grieves her loss. Humor leavens the pain as he lives through the madness of
grief and creates a living portrait of a love as joyous as it is deep and
profound. Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and
accountability, and a tribute to Aura, who she was and who she would've been..”
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