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A review by indigoarden
Often I Am Happy by Jens Christian Grøndahl
4.0
“There are times when I cannot hold his absence, and the feeling is a physical one; it is not a metaphor.”
“It is so unfamiliar. I never brooded over death or my getting older. Why would I want to do that? What else would I become? - I’ve always said to myself that I’ll just proceed for as long as I can. I’ve said to myself that I should be happy as long as I’m able to move, as long as it doesn’t hurt particularly much anywhere.”
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Raw, poignant, forgiving and unforgiving. What seems like all forms of grief boundlessly expressed, free from filters and restriction, in this bare-fully honest recounting of the narrator’s life story of loss and bereavement.
“It is so unfamiliar. I never brooded over death or my getting older. Why would I want to do that? What else would I become? - I’ve always said to myself that I’ll just proceed for as long as I can. I’ve said to myself that I should be happy as long as I’m able to move, as long as it doesn’t hurt particularly much anywhere.”
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Raw, poignant, forgiving and unforgiving. What seems like all forms of grief boundlessly expressed, free from filters and restriction, in this bare-fully honest recounting of the narrator’s life story of loss and bereavement.