Death on the Edge by Sara Paretsky

Author:Sara Paretsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

Every story is different, but every story is the same: the same grief, the same incomprehension, the same anger, whether over Baby Nikwa Jonas, hit by a bullet that went through her father’s kitchen window, or for Alan Wicherly, star forward on my school’s basketball team, shot by a cop when he was putting a hand inside his pocket for his driver’s license.

These deaths create a mountain of grief that presses down on me. There are days when it scarcely seems possible to rise from my bed, because the grief mountain grew another hundred feet higher in the night.

Family and neighbors call on Jesus for help or faith, but I always remember my grandmother, kneeling next to my Uncle Ty. She called him “my baby.” It had never occurred to me that my big laughing uncle had ever been my grandma’s baby, but when he died, he was, in her eyes, no bigger than Baby Nikwa.

“Why, Jesus?” she cried. “Why did you bring him safe home from Iraq only to let him die in front of me? Are you the God of mercy or God of mirth, laughing at the contortions of the human heart?”

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