Grief rarely announces itself the way fiction usually shows it. More often it sits quietly in a house where everyone has stopped talking. That's the world Mike Bassett builds in his debut novel, The Quiet Weight of Wings, a literary coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who turns to letters when she can't find any other way to speak her loss out loud. This article looks at the story itself, the themes running through it, the author behind it, and who is likely to connect with it most.
A Story That Begins With Silence and Ends With Connection
The novel follows seventeen-year-old Grace Harper after the death of her mother. She expects silence to follow a loss like this, but what she finds instead is a house full of people who don't know how to grieve out loud.
