"In one of the most beautiful passages in the book, while scared she might fall through the thin ice of a river, she accepts the possibility of her death as a chance at communion, a violence that Groff renders with awe:It was not sad to her, this idea of the river gathering her dead body up into its dark hands and carrying it bumping under the ice all the way down into the great bay, where the l..."
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