When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book

A memoir by Naja Marie Aidt, translated by Denise Newman Hardcover: September 3, 2019 • 5 x 7.75 • 152 pages • 978-1-56689-560-6 Paperback: April 6, 2021 • 5 x 7.75 • 152 pages • 978-1-56689-593-4 An unflinchingly raw and lyrical exploration of a mother’s grief and how it transforms her relationship to time, reality, and language. In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt’s twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love. Intensely moving, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back explores what it is to be a family, what it is to love and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death’s indomitable resolve. About the Author Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry, a