Some wonderful friends on the West Coast gave me Roger Rosenblatt’s book, Kayak Morning, as a Christmas present. I was familiar with Rosenblatt as a writer for Time magazine and also as a columnist for The Washington Post, but was unfamiliar with the tragic death of his daughter, Amy Solomon, a 38-year-old wife and mother of three children, from a heart condition.
In Kayak Morning, which was written two years after Amy’s death, Rosenblatt explores the human experience of loss. His descriptions of his grief and his reflections about his daughter Amy’s death are calm and straightforward … Read More