On Grief

By: Jennifer Senior | Series:Atlantic Editions

A Pulitzer Prizewinning portrait of one familys search for meaning in the face of unspeakable loss. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazines 165-year archive.

In this Pulitzer Prizewinning work, Jennifer Senior explores the contours of grief through one familys twenty-year reckoning with the loss of their son, Bobby McIlvaine Jr., on September 11, 2001. Devastating and expansive, Seniors portrait examines her own relationship with the McIlvaine family alongside intimate scenes of both mourning and recovery experienced by Bobbys mother, father, younger brother, and soon-to-be fiance. On Grief generously asks us what it means to consider grief, both personal and national, as an ongoing project.