Impossible

In Making Toast, Professor Roger Rosenblatt shares the sad and very sudden death of his 30-something daughter. His thought-fragments brings us close to Amy’s family and to many others who quietly daily endure unbearable incomprehensible losses. Parents and siblings replay undeleted voicemails, watch old videos, remember shared Christmases, say prayers, not buy that special hat for the person no longer here. Children crayon a truncated family. To distract his three grandchildren, Rosenblatt plays a fun word game with them each morning. In one such instance, his writes orchid and cello on the chalkboard. In orchid, there is an h but it is silent. In cello, there is no h but we hear it.