Leah Hager Cohen - Heat Lightning

The Grief of Others

on the year-end best lists of:

The New York Times
The Washington Post
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Toronto Globe and Mail
Kirkus

an Oprah Book

long-listed for the Orange Prize

winner of an Elle Readers Prize

Leah Hager Cohen is one of our foremost chroniclers of the mundane complexities, nuanced tragedies and unexpected tendernesses of human connection...The Grief of Others is her best work yet.

- The New York Times Book Review (cover)

Cohen's empathy is sure-footed and seemingly boundless; her writing gifts its characters with glints of ordinary human radiance. It is the possibility of this glinting that ultimately becomes Cohen's most powerful gift to us, her readers, as well.

- San Francisco Chronicle

Cohen demonstrates a masterful command of storytelling...driving an already gripping narrative with a quiet but brutal intensity.

Incredibly moving...Cohen has secured a place in the lineup of today’s great writers.

- BookPage

Cohen’s stunning writing ...mesmerizes, wounds, and possibly even heals her readers. Her courageous novel (she knows of what she writes) is to be savored.

- Library Journal (starred)

Powerful...There’s pain in reading this book, but there’s another thread running through it, too, gleaming with all the vibrancy of Cohen’s prose: hope.

- The Washington Post





	The Grief of Others on the year-end best lists of: The New York Times The Washington Post The San Francisco Chronicle The Toronto Globe and Mail Kirkus an Oprah Book long-listed for the Orange Prize winner of an Elle Readers Prize Leah Hager Cohen is one of our foremost chroniclers of the mundane complexities, nuanced tragedies and unexpected tendernesses of human connection...The Grief of Others is her best work yet. - The New York Times Book Review (cover) Cohen's empathy is sure-footed and seemingly boundless; her writing gifts its characters with glints of ordinary human radiance. It is the possibility of this glinting that ultimately becomes Cohen's most powerful gift to us, her readers, as well. - San Francisco Chronicle Cohen demonstrates a masterful command of storytelling...driving an already gripping narrative with a quiet but brutal intensity. Incredibly moving...Cohen has secured a place in the lineup of today’s great writers. - BookPage Cohen’s stunning writing ...mesmerizes, wounds, and possibly even heals her readers. Her courageous novel (she knows of what she writes) is to be savored. - Library Journal (starred) Powerful...There’s pain in reading this book, but there’s another thread running through it, too, gleaming with all the vibrancy of Cohen’s prose: hope. - The Washington Post