Fiction: The Circle of Life
ISBN: 0-380-00342-2
Avon Books a division of
The Hearst Corporation
September 19975
91 pages
5 stars
This novella is a quick read, a perfect story. There is not one word too many, not one word superfluous. It is a sad story but treated with such respect. I can’t help but wonder if it might not be autobiographical.
I recommend this book to anyone who has lost a child, especially at or before birth. It is sad, but not maudlin. It is beautiful. How Laski goes through his wife’s labor, and the birth of their first child, a son. How Laski comes to the realization that death is part of life. How he makes the casket with care and love. How he buries the baby on their woodland property.
Although it is a fairly modern story, I kept thinking back to the pioneers, and that time, and birth and death and life.
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