PositiveThe Los Angeles Review of Books... the novelist writing these essays, this year, spends most of her time with portraiture, turning something she’s once described as \'a source of daily pleasure\' — other people’s faces — into the basis for the ethical argument that anchors this book and perhaps our moment.
William Giraldi
PositiveBookforumThe Hero’s Body contains beauty, solace, humor, a whole reference library. Giraldi ends with a coda about becoming a father to two sons. Where his father is concerned, it’s not our reading but his own living—and by this I mean his own living through grief—that still seems paramount.
