Strange Vigil

Scott Frey has written a book of devotion, an exhalation that is equal parts elegy and ode, one that reaches for the depths of love for a daughter, from the perspective of a father whose suffering and grief are met with compassion and empathy from tribes of people who meet him along his sojourn. Here is a speaker who pries open the portal to a world where we are summoned to the valleys, cliffs, and vast landscapes of familial loss. I am filled with awe and gratitude and I weep for such an offering.

—Tina Chang, author of Hybrida