Although it felt like flight, I knew the fall was wrong: body upended, working to right itself even as it spiralled head-first, it seemed, down. I’d gone over the tiniest cliff, from darkened footpath to an unseen recessed lawn. On my back, I looked up at faces—my husband Christopher, my step-daughter Miriam, a nurse who’d…
Author: Joyce Kornblatt
Joyce Kornblatt is a novelist, essayist, and former English professor at the University of Maryland. She now lives in Sydney, Australia, where she is at work on a novel and a book about grief.