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“The Happiness of Being Sad”: A Review of “Memorial Days” by Geraldine Brooks

On Memorial Day 2019, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks had only just settled at her desk to begin the day’s work when she received a call from a harried resident at George Washington University Hospital informing her that her husband of thirty-five years, Tony Horwitz, had died. He was on tour to promote his new book, “Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide,” when he collapsed on a suburban Maryland street, due to an as-yet-undiagnosed heart condition. Five-hundred miles away, at their home on Martha’s Vineyard, Brooks struggled to make sense of the resident’s words. “Not Tony. Not him… The sixty-year-old who still wears clothes the same size as the day I met him in his twenties. My husband, younger than I am.”

In the weeks and months that followed, Brooks suppressed her grief and bewilderment and threw herself into the obligations that most immediately required her attention: taking care of her and Horwitz’s sons, one still in high school,

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Education: B.A., University of Sydney
M.S., Columbia University School of Journalism

As a journalist, Geraldine Brooks covered environmental issues and conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans for The Wall Street Journal. As a novelist, her focus has been historical fiction and her second novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2010, edited The Best American Short Stories 2011 and in 2016 she was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia. She was Centennial Writer in Residence at the American Library in Paris in 2020.

Selected Works:

Non-fiction: Nine Parts of Desire, Doubleday, 1994. Foreign Correspondence, Doubleday, 1997. The Idea of Home: Boyer Lectures 2011 (ABC Books).

Fiction: Year of Wonders, 2001. March, 2005. People of the Book 2008. Caleb’s Crossing, 2011. The Secret Chord, 2015 (all published by Viking Penguin).

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Geraldine Brooks

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in Sydney, Australia

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http://www.geraldinebrooks.com/

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, and attended Bethlehem College Ashfield and the University of Sydney. She worked as a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald for three years as a feature writer with a special interest in environmental issues.

In 1982 she won the Greg Shackleton Australian News Correspondents scholarship to the journalism master’s program at Columbia University in New York City. Later she worked for The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.

She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel MarchLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an author and