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The Specific Gravity of Grief - Jay Lake

By Jay Lake

Release Date: 2016-02-16

Genre: Essays

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From Wired.com: Characterizing this book is in itself a bit of a challenge: Itā€™s fiction, but itā€™s about a writer named Jay Lake who writes like the real Jay Lake and is also fighting cancer. In other words, itā€™s all but impossible to read Specific Gravity without taking into account that the story contains a large infusion of brutal first-hand reality. (The cover art maintains this blurring of fact and fiction, being a portrait of Lake himself shot by photographer Kyle Cassidy.) The book is an extremely human story told through images and recollections and lists and flashbacks, and honestly, because itā€™s not very long, to say more is redundant. You know itā€™s about cancer. You know itā€™s going to be tough. And you know itā€™s about things that matter. The Specific Gravity of Grief isnā€™t a long book, and itā€™s not a fun book or a kidsā€™ book, and with its subject matter, itā€™s the sort of book that makes it difficult to say, ā€œHey, I really liked it!ā€ even if you did. Itā€™s a good and powerful read in both big ways and small ways, and Iā€™m glad that Lake has both the skill and courage to write it in his unique voice.

The Specific Gravity of Grief - Jay Lake

By Jay Lake

Release Date: 2016-02-16

Genre: Essays

(0 ratings)
Read Download
From Wired.com: Characterizing this book is in itself a bit of a challenge: Itā€™s fiction, but itā€™s about a writer named Jay Lake who writes like the real Jay Lake and is also fighting cancer. In other words, itā€™s all but impossible to read Specific Gravity without taking into account that the story contains a large infusion of brutal first-hand reality. (The cover art maintains this blurring of fact and fiction, being a portrait of Lake himself shot by photographer Kyle Cassidy.) The book is an extremely human story told through images and recollections and lists and flashbacks, and honestly, because itā€™s not very long, to say more is redundant. You know itā€™s about cancer. You know itā€™s going to be tough. And you know itā€™s about things that matter. The Specific Gravity of Grief isnā€™t a long book, and itā€™s not a fun book or a kidsā€™ book, and with its subject matter, itā€™s the sort of book that makes it difficult to say, ā€œHey, I really liked it!ā€ even if you did. Itā€™s a good and powerful read in both big ways and small ways, and Iā€™m glad that Lake has both the skill and courage to write it in his unique voice.

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