Aurelia, Aurélia
A Memoir

Quotes

“A memoir that mimics the atemporal quality of the episodes that give meaning to life…an entrancing song.” New York Times

“A glimmering memoir…[that] successfully transcend[s] the conventional let-me-tell-you style of memoir in favor of something rarer, more ethereal.” Los Angeles Times

“It’s the consideration of grief’s reverberations―that is, not what grief is, but what grief makes one think about―that serves to sharpen the sense of loss.” Cleveland Review of Books

“A profound meditation on grief…A transcendent work of literary divination.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“[An] exquisite, lightning-bolt bright, zigzagging, and striking musing on the self, life, death.” Booklist

“The ordinariness of author Kathryn Davis’s voice, which is light and pleasant despite being slightly nasal, focuses listeners on the extra-ordinariness of her brief memoir…[She] delivers her writing carefully, with a poet’s word-by-word unhurried pace.” AudioFile

“[Davis] has a gift for writing about the most difficult subjects with honesty, precision, and grace, and though much of it is heartbreaking Aurelia, Aurélia made me rejoice.” Sigrid Nunez, author of Naked Sleeper

“[An] acutely intelligent memoir, sometimes sorrowful, sometimes quietly funny, but always wide awake to the strange wonder of being.” Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Truth about Celia

Awards

• New Yorker Best Books of the Year