Unraveling Grief and Love: The Haunting Journey Within "Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell"
“I was dumbfounded,” he writes. “I thought I knew almost everything about her—and now…I’d found out a secret she’d kept from me for almost twenty years!”
Those journals “felt both spooky and miraculous, like the zombie quality of something living that’s also dead. Writing was our bond. No matter how estranged we became, it always brought us, if not together, as close as we could come.”
Those entries are reproduced in typeset script to differentiate them from Sleigh’s own words. The book is structured as a series of responses to Rosie’s entries. Glancing at the first one (shown below), he is “dismayed that she’d prefaced her first volume with a quote taken from an early poem I’d written. I felt like a Peeping Tom who sees something he wished he hadn’t.”
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