When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction Longlisted for the National Book Award in Translated Literature Longlisted for the 2020 PEN Translation Award In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love. Intensely moving, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back explores what is it to be a family, what it is to love and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death's indomitable resolve. | When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt, Paperback | Indigo Chapters