The Grief of Others

The Ryries have suffered a loss the death of a baby just fiftyseven hours after his birth Without words to express their grief the parents John and Ricky try to return to their previous lives The couples children tenyearold Biscuit and thirteenyearold Paul responding to the unnamed tensions around them begin to act out in exquisitely idiosyncratic ways But as the family members scatter into private isolating grief an unexpected visitor arrives and they find themselves growing more alert to the hurt humor warmth and burdens of othersto the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together