ONCE WAS WILLEM by M. R. Carey (BOOK REVIEW)

ONCE WAS WILLEM by M. R. Carey (BOOK REVIEW)

“Dying is a sorry thing, I thought, but it was worth going through death to come finally to this. Nothing I had lost could be half so dear or half so sweet as what I had found. And so I might have lived to this day, and known no sorrow deserving of the name. But humankind was not done with me yet. Great sorrow, great travail, great loss and perturbation were in store, for me and all of us. There is a saying: call no man fortunate until he is dea…