Review: A very powerful portrait of grief
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 29, 2014
Lizzie and Jeff are happily married, living a perfect life, with their first child on the way. This is the story of what happens after Jeff is brutally murdered on the way home from work.The author seems very familiar with grief and it's stages. At first there is denial, and Lizzie finds all kinds of reasons to not believe that her beloved husband is dead.  Then she goes through the "if only" thoughts. If only Jeff had come straight home from work, if only she hadn't asked him to stop by the store...Though Lizzie has a very close family and great friends, who are supportive at first, she soon learns to hide her grief, and measure her words. She even starts holding things back from her counselor and doctors. Unfortunately, I found that a symptom of a problem in our society. We tend believe that grief lasts a few months and then you get over it.Schrodinger's Telephone is a play on words using a physics thought experiment about whether a cat in a box can be both dead and alive. Lizzie's husband telephoned her from a payphone in Central Park about an hour after he was murdered. I never thought she was going crazy, I wondered about a parallel reality, but I think that's common and others have had similar experiences.Schrodinger's Telephoneis a book that anyone grieving should read. It made me cry in places, but it was a brilliant portrait of enduring love and its loss.