When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back

An unflinchingly raw and lyrical exploration of a mother’s grief and how it transforms her relationship to time, reality, and language. In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt’s twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love. Intensely moving, When Death Takes S