Praises forย Shivah
โโI didnโt know which mother to grieve,โ Lisa Solod writes in her closely observed and heartbreaking novel Shivah. As her mother sinks deeply into Alzheimerโs, Leah must come to terms with a broken relationship that now will never have time to heal. With a journalistโs eye and a daughterโs heart, Solod puts her character on a quest for the pearl of peace in the dark
water of bitterness and lossโa painful journey that will leave readers deeply moved.โ
โJacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean
โSolod gives her readers a command performanceโone that leaves the reader filled with empathy and sympathy both.โ
โLinda Gray Sexton, author of Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton and Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide
“‘But grief has its own timeline,’ just like these words, Shivah honors and reveals Lisa Solod’s ability to cut into the soul of grief. I felt privileged to be let into the multilayered relationship between a daughter and her mother.โ
โCarly Israel, author of Seconds and Inches
“Shivah is a beautiful, moving meditation on the multiple, complex, and often conflicting layers of grief. Through her narrator’s spiraling introspection, Solod asks what it means to lose someone long before you’ve lost them, to grieve what might have been as well as what was.”
โIlana Masad, author of All My Mother’s Lovers
Reviews
“…Shivah works to peel back the complexities behind not only the women of this family, but the emotional drainage that one experiences when forced to grieve a loved one while theyโre yet still aliveโeven as the concept of what it means to be a โloved oneโ gets continually challenged in this family.”
โNia Dickens, Sinking Cityย (University of Miami)
“The prose is warm, flowing, and textured, mixing prose with poetry, quotes, and journal entries. Written as a detailed character study, it explores the realities of living with a difficult parent…Shivah is an introspective novel in which a daughter trades her angry resentment for compassion and love after her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimerโs disease.”
โErika Harlitz Kern,ย Foreword Reviews
Mentions
- University of Miami,ย Sinking Cityย – A Conversation with Lisa Solod
