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Meghan O'Rourke

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Meghan O’Rourke is the author The Long Goodbye: A Memoir (Riverhead Books, 2011), and the poetry collections Once (W. W. Norton, 2011) and Halflife (W. W. Norton, 2007). A former literary editor of Slate and poetry editor of The Paris Review, she has published essays and poems in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Best American Poetry, and other venues. She is the recipient of the 2008 May Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She splits her time between Brooklyn, NY, where she grew up, and Marfa, TX.

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Average rating: 3.80 · 784 ratings · 213 reviews · 7 distinct works

	The Long Goodbye: A memoir 3.82 avg rating — 665 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Halflife 3.71 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Once: Poems 3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Long Goodbye: A Memoir of Grief 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	The Long Goodbye: A Year of Grieving 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Long Goodbye: A Memoir 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Happy Campers: A Slate Anthology of Tales From Summer Camp by Emily Bazelon, Seth Stevenson (Contributor), Liesl Schillinger (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”
― Meghan O'Rourke

tags: death , grief , identity , loss , mourning , relationships

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“What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.”
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tags: belief , death , loss

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“A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.”
― Meghan O'Rourke

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