The Beautiful Unseen

.. .the narrative has a powerful anchor amid the mists of fog...There's a catharsis within this narrative strand...he shows that he knows what he's doing...often moving memoir, Boelte ends with a different perspective than when he started. -- Kirkus Painful, intimate, and exquisitely written, Kyle Boelte's The Beautiful Unseen confronts one family's profoundest grief with a searing honesty. -- Peter Orner, Author of Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge and Esther Stories What is this alchemy, by which natural beauty - fog, wind, damp redwoods - can transform grief into wonder and a semblance of peace? This is the question that Kyle Boelte probes with strong, honest sentences and a young man's clear eyes. Like Annie Dillard, he blends meteorology, memory, and mystery into a gift of grace. -- Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Wild Comfort We know how to speak about death. We know how to grieve. Except when it is a suicide--then our culture lacks language, ritual, and understanding. Consider The Beautiful Unseen as an honest and eloquent guide to an uncharted landscape of loss, in which Kyle Boelte has done the brutal and tender mapping of a story that fills the silence, that gives us permission to mourn, and honor, those dead by their own hand. -- Amy Irvine, author of Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land A slim book of startling prose, The Beautiful Unseen slips between past and present, inner life and outer, seamlessly and beautifully. It's that rare, treasured thing: a moving portrait of loss that never settles for easy answers. -- Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life The Beautiful Unseen is its own weather system: soulful, unpredictable, shadow then light. Terry Tempest Williams, author of Refuge