The Guardians: An Elegy

Sarah Manguso

The Guardians: An Elegy
Format
Paperback
Publisher
St. Martins Press-3pl
Country
United States
Published
5 March 2013
Pages
111
ISBN
9781250024152

The Guardians: An Elegy

Sarah Manguso

An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night, reported the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press. This man was named Harris, and The Guardians–written in the years after he escaped from a psychiatric hospital and ended his life–is Sarah Manguso’s heartbreaking elegy.

Harris was a man who played music, wrote software, wrote music, learned to drive, went to college, went to bed with girls. In The Guardians, Manguso grieves not for family or for a lover, but for a best friend. With startling humor and candor, she paints a portrait of a friendship between a man and a woman–in all its unexpected detail–and shows that love and grief do not always take the shapes we expect them to.

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