Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir Audiobook

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

• “[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