The Organisational Fakery of Our Grief

In Max Porter’s novella, Grief is a thing with Feathers,’ the unnamed widower and father, its central character, speaks about the grief of losing his young wife.  He says, ‘I sat alone in the living room wondering what to do.  Shuffling around, waiting for shock to give way, waiting for any kind of structured feeling to emerge from the organizational fakery of my days’. 
We feel a sense of the loneliness, bewilderment, disbelief, shock and the subversion of order in the character’s life, while…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-12-08/1025/