The Unique Power of Grief, Observed

Amanda Held Opelt’s A Hole in the World Gave Me Space to Sit with Death

I was a few pages into Amanda Held Opelt’s A Hole in the World when I messaged another writer, recommending it. The same evening, I’d read my friend TaraShea Nesbit’s wrenching piece, for Granta. “Our daughter had been born one month early, unbreathing. My husband and I drove to the last place we were happy,” Nesbit wrote.

Next, just hours later in my co…