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A review by brittkieff
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha by Rodrigo García
5.0
Listened to this whole audiobook running errands and walking through a park earlier today. I cried multiple times, but most embarrassingly I cried putting yerba mates into my cart at HEB.
“Shortly after the news of my father’s death is made public, his secretary receives an email from a friend she hasn’t talked to in a long time. The friend wanted to know if we were aware that Úrsula Iguarán, one of his most famous characters, also died on a Good Thursday. She has included the passage from his novel in her email, and in rereading it, my dad’s secretary discovers that after Úrsula’s death, disoriented birds flew into walls and fell dead on the ground. She reads it out loud, clearly thinking about the dead bird earlier in the day. She looks at me, perhaps hoping I am foolish enough to venture an opinion the coincidence. All I know is that I can’t wait to retell it.”
“Shortly after the news of my father’s death is made public, his secretary receives an email from a friend she hasn’t talked to in a long time. The friend wanted to know if we were aware that Úrsula Iguarán, one of his most famous characters, also died on a Good Thursday. She has included the passage from his novel in her email, and in rereading it, my dad’s secretary discovers that after Úrsula’s death, disoriented birds flew into walls and fell dead on the ground. She reads it out loud, clearly thinking about the dead bird earlier in the day. She looks at me, perhaps hoping I am foolish enough to venture an opinion the coincidence. All I know is that I can’t wait to retell it.”