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Grief does not arrive once and leave. It comes in waves, it lingers long after everyone else has moved on, and it is loudest in the quiet. Wails of Grief sits with that honestly. Merapelo Lechaena has written a collection of poems about losing a loved one, moving through the whole difficult sequence: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, the particular loneliness of feeling misunderstood, and eventually acceptance. She does not rush any of it. What the collection offers instead is company, a sense that the grief is recognised and shared rather than something to be hidden. Anyone who has loved someone and lost them will find their own experience somewhere in these pages, alongside the reminder that resilience and hope survive alongside the pain. Lechaena is a writer from Botswana who has loved reading and storytelling since primary school. Her work centres African narratives and, in particular, Botswana’s own stories, driven by a belief that this country deserves representation in the literary world. She writes about vulnerability and lived emotion, often from the perspective of a young woman finding her way through modern life. Away from the page she advocates for education and literacy, and works towards establishing libraries and information centres for primary school students in Botswana who have least access to books. Paperback. ISBN 978-99968-970-9-2. Written and published in Botswana.