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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers 4th kids Amber Massie-Blomfield considers the workHere he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow antagonist,