Learning How to Grieve in Public
What happens when private loss is widely shared instead of borne alone? Your weekly guide to the best in books
by Andrew Aoyama
Jun 03, 2022
3 minutes
To insist, as the journalist John Gunther did, that deserved to be published was to insist that the boy it memorialized deserved to be remembered, not only by his family but by the world. As his 17-year-old son, Johnny, died of cancer, Gunther drafted a candid portrait of his grief. When it was published, in 1949, his level of disclosure was still considered uncouth, and Gunther knew it. But was a success, resonating with a United States shocked by the tragedy of the Second World War.By moving his
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