Say Her Name, Francisco Goldman
Say Her Name, Francisco Goldman
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Say Her Name

Author: Francisco Goldman

Narrator: Robert Fass

Unabridged: 12 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/04/2011


Synopsis

Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body-surfing. Francisco, blamed for Aura's death by her family and blaming himself, wanted to die, too. But instead he wrote Say Her Name, a novel chronicling his great love and unspeakable loss, tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain.

Suddenly a widower, Goldman collects everything he can about his wife, hungry to keep Aura alive with every memory. From her childhood and university days in Mexico City with her fiercely devoted mother to her studies at Columbia University, through their newlywed years in New York City and travels to Mexico and Europe—and always through the prism of her gifted writings—Goldman seeks her essence and grieves her loss. Humor leavens the pain as he lives through the madness of utter grief and creates a living portrait of a love as joyous and playful as it is deep and profound.

Say Her Name is a love story, a bold inquiry into destiny and accountability, and a tribute to Aura, who she was and who she would have been.

About Francisco Goldman

Francisco Goldman has published five novels and two books of nonfiction. His books have been published in sixteen languages. Goldman has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library, and a Berlin Fellow at the American Academy. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also received a 2017 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Prize, and PENMexico's 2017 Award for Journalistic and Literary Excellence. He has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, the Believer, and many other publications. He directs the Aura Estrada Prize (auraestradaprize.org.). He lives in Mexico City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jordan

It’s a strange process, the zigs and zags that can make a reader pick up a book. Case in point: a recent story in The New Yorker name-checked a book called ‘The Art of Political Murder’ by Francisco Goldman. So I recognized the name when I spotted the book on one of the new release table in the stor......more

Goodreads review by Jill

Grief is, by and large, a private and intimate thing. We utter a few platitudes and then turn away in discomfort from who are laid bare by their grief. And emotionally, we begin to withdraw. Francisco Goldman shatters those boundaries in his devastating book Say Her Name, forcing the reader to pay wi......more

Goodreads review by Susan

My first impression of this book was that it was magnificent. I could only read a tiny bit at a time because of the crushing weight of the loss that the author experienced after the untimely death of his wife. The book gets two stars for this part alone. The rest was crap. After I got into the book a......more