The Unique Power of Grief, Observed
Amanda Held Opelt’s A Hole in the World Gave Me Space to Sit with Death
3 min readMar 21, 2023
I was a few pages into Amanda Held Opelt’s A Hole in the World when I messaged another writer, recommending it. The same evening, I’d read my friend TaraShea Nesbit’s wrenching piece, for Granta. “Our daughter had been born one month early, unbreathing. My husband and I drove to the…