A review by alyciapais
The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend by Sarah Manguso

5.0

This is the third, I think, Sarah Manguso book I’ve read, and my reaction after finishing each one has been the same: I want to reread it immediately. Maybe it’s because they’re relatively short books so that idea isn’t daunting or because so much is packed into the sparse pages that I need to revisit it to make sure I didn’t miss something. Really it’s because of her deliberate, beautiful writing.
This book is an elegy for a dear, dead friend of hers, and it’s just so sad and so good and so beautiful.