Abby Howell's Reviews > The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend

In brief paragraphs, images, and sections, Manguso explores the grief of losing a friend to suicide. And the grief of her still being "lucky". Of her making it through her own life, despite her own bouts of mental illness. I was moved by the content and engaged with her spare style. The reader can see both Sarah and Harris through Manguso's eyes. The joy of what these two people were together. And the deep, deep grief of what they didn't have. Maybe what no two human beings can have.