Ten Novels That Begin in Elegy and End in Joy
(alphabetically by author, with a soundtrack by David Sylvian)
In Calabria by Peter S. Beagle
A Love Affair by Dino Buzzati
Alone by Chabouté
Farther Along by Donald Harington
Life at These Speeds by Jeremy Jackson
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
A Distant Neighborhood by Jiro Taniguchi
Among Others by Jo Walton
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
— January 23, 2022