Celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda in the summer of 2005. The month before their second anniversary during a long-awaited holiday Aura broke her neck while body surfing. Francisco blamed for Auras death by her family & blaming himself wanted to die too. But instead he wrote Say Her Name a novel chronicling his great love & unspeakable loss tracking the stages of grief when pure love gives way to bottomless pain. Suddenly a widower Goldman collects everything he can about his wife hungry to keep Aura alive with every memory. From her childhood & university days in Mexico City with her fiercely devoted mother to her studies at Columbia University through their newlywed years in New York City & travels to Mexico & Europe
- & always through the prism of her gifted writings-Goldman seeks her essence & grieves her loss. Humour leavens the pain as he lives through the madness of utter grief & creates a living portrait of a love as joyous & playful as it is deep & profound. Say Her Name is a love story a bold inquiry into destiny & accountability & a tribute to Aura
- who she was & who she would have been.