In a Dark Wood

Description

When Joseph Luzzi's pregnant wife was in a car accident-- and died forty-five minutes after giving birth to their daughter Isabel-- he found himself a widower and first-time father at the same moment. While he grieved and cared for his infant daughter, miraculously delivered by caesarean before his wife passed, he turned to Dante's Divine Comedy for solace. In a Dark Wood tells the story of how Dante helped the author rebuild his life, raise his daughter, and rediscover love. A meditation on the influence of great art and its power to give us strength in our darkest moments, Luzzi's emotionally resonant memoir opens the door into the mysteries of Dante's epic poem.