Book review: “The Grief of Others,” by Leah Hager Cohen
The family in Leah Hager Cohen's powerful fourth novel, "The Grief of Others," is an unhappy one, and every member is unhappy in his or her own way.
Ricky, the mother, envisions crashing through the guardrail and driving off the Tappan Zee Bridge on her way home each night from her job as a financial engineer. Thirteen-year-old Paul overeats and is being bullied at school, but at least he still goes, unlike his 10-year-old sister, Biscuit, whose truancy distresses her parents, even though they seem unable to muster the energy to do anything about it. Then there's John, the father, who loves his work designing theater sets at a community college — except for the knowledge "looming over him at all times" that it traps his wife in a high-paying job she hates.
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