Life after loss in ‘Sanctuary’
In a second memoir, Emily Rapp Black meditates on motherhood, survival, and hope
By Julianna Baggott Globe Correspondent,Updated January 20, 2021, 7:17 p.m.
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In her latest memoir, “Sanctuary,” Emily Rapp Black attempts to plumb both grief and love. After the death of her son, Ronan, to Tay-Sachs disease before his 3rd birthday, a journey she writes about in her previous memoir “The Still Point of the Turning World” (2014), Black finds herself living in the aftermath of unimaginable loss. On these pages, she refuses to usher the reader through the tidy, well-bordered stages of grief. Instead, she is rebuilding a life in ways that are messy, erratic, and devastating while finding moments of joy, strength, and resilience, a word she’s wrestled with.

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