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Antiphon: A Call and Response in a Year of Grief and Renewal
Two friends find themselves confronting live-shattering circumstances: the death of a child by suicide and the diagnosis...
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Two friends find themselves confronting live-shattering circumstances: the death of a child by suicide and the diagnosis of a glioblastoma brain tumor. Engulfed by pain, they ask each other: "What if? What if we just write to each other? Anything. Just write."
Over the course of the next year, these two women-one in New York City, the other in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado-embark on a deliberate correspondence to rescue themselves and each other from overwhelming grief. As the months pass, the act of writing and bearing witness to one another transforms each woman's journey through terrible loss into a courageous affirmation of resilience and of lives well lived.
"We've been friends for over forty-five years, since high school," Chris and Jane explain, remembering with humor their experiences as the awkward and unlikely co-captains of the Scarsdale High School JV Field Hockey team. Both women went on to attend Wellesley College outside of Boston. "But our adult lives took very different trajectories, and part of what this epistolary project allowed us to explore, as we reckoned with grief and mortality, were those experiences that we all share, that make us who we are as human beings: the desire for love, the challenge of navigating close personal relationships, the reality of grief and loss, the longing for a life of meaning. We have loved these months of corresponding with each other for the simple yet life-affirming feeling of having someone to walk with in the deep woods."
Author: Jane Flynn,Christina Holbrook
Publisher: Ikaros Books
Published: 10/15/2025
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9798999362803
About the Author
Flynn, Jane: - A self-described "serial New Yorker", Jane Flynn was born in Manhattan and lived there through early childhood and again as a young attorney. She received her BA in Ancient Greek and English from Wellesley College, and her JD from Harvard Law School. She left family, friends and profession behind in 1990 to follow her future husband to Athens, Greece. After learning Greek, she spent the next thirty years raising two sons while navigating the services to support her younger son with autism. She cofounded an autism advocacy nonprofit and later served on the board of the Mediterranean Garden Society. Jane returned to New York in late 2020 following her younger son's death by suicide. She worked in Visitors Services for the Central Park Conservancy for several years, and continues to volunteer in Central Park. Antiphon is her first published work.Holbrook, Christina: - Christina Holbrook graduated with a BA from Wellesley College and spent most of her career in New York City involved in the printing and publishing of art and photography books. She now lives in Breckenridge, Colorado, with her husband Alan Dulit. Christina has worked as a columnist for the Summit Daily newspaper in Colorado, and her short stories have appeared in a number of literary journals. All the Flowers of the Mountain, her first novel, was published by Sunroom Studios in 2022 and has received the 2023 Colorado Book Award for Romance, the 2023 IPPY Bronze Medal for Romance, and the 2025 IPPY Silver Medal for Fiction Audiobook.
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