My Brother Jaz

Gideon Haigh
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My Brother Jaz

Published

3 September 2024

ISBN

9780522880830

Pages

96

Imprint

Melbourne University Press

My Brother Jaz

Gideon Haigh
A profoundly moving memoir on grief and resilience
In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped. Dark, raw and revealing, My Brother Jaz is how it feels to lose someone, and yourself, even as the rest of the world turns, and you struggle to keep up.
In January 2024, in a period of personal crisis, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed, finally facing how it had shaped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped. Dark, raw and revealing, My Brother Jaz is how it feels to lose someone, and yourself, even as the rest of the world turns, and you struggle to keep up.

This is how the inner life, the soul, the existence, of the people we love lives on: in our memories of them, our still-alive feelings for them and our sadness at their absence.”
The Monthly

But even the deepest grief eases over time, memories fade, events blur together—and those natural processes give rise to another form of grief: the grief of forgetting what the person looked like, periods of time in which the person is not thought of, and the times the grieving person enjoys life.”
Queensland Reviewers Collective

Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has published more than fifty books and contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines in a decades-long journalism career. His cricket books include The Cricket War, The Summer Game and On Warne, and he has written on subjects from abortion, asbestos and architecture to incest and HV Evatt. The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and Certain Admissions won a Ned Kelly Prize…

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