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“The measure of any person is their relationship to the living things around them,” Hammerquist said. “Maybe that’s just getting older. But if you want to feel a connection, get yourself out of a human-built environment.”

…t too much sadness, but some days the insulation grows thin and I find myself incapable of thought, captivated by the view from the window in the house that loss built.

The theme of the novel is about the spaces in which one dies, not the spaces in which memorialises. Putting the focus on the dying and not on the grieving insulates me against too much sadness, but s…