Goldman is the author of the novels The Long Night of White Chickens, The Ordinary Seaman and The Divine Husband and one nonfiction work, The Art of Political Murder, all of which have been published by Grove/Atlantic. You deal with these things by relying on what you know how to do." I always say that if I had been a mountain climber, after Aura's death I would have tried to climb the highest mountain.
"Writing is my way to process things," he said. Goldman began writing Say Her Name five months after Aura's death and worked on it for three years. "Frank brings Aura alive for all of us who didn't know her." "It's emotional and moving, but there's so much humor in it as well," said Elisabeth Schmitz, v-p and executive editor. Some scenes, like his wife's accident and its aftermath, are entirely factual, while other scenarios, such as ones depicting her childhood, were imagined based on conversations the couple had or snippets from Aura's diaries. In Say Her Name, which will be published in April, Goldman melds fact and fiction to create a vivid, compelling portrait of Aura's upbringing in Mexico, her literary and academic pursuits, their courtship and marriage, its heartbreaking end and his journey through grief. But then she had an accident while body surfing and died from her injuries. In 2007, Goldman and his 30-year-old wife, writer and Columbia University graduate student Aura Estrada, were enjoying a much-anticipated holiday at a Mexican beach town. Say Her Name "was my way of mourning Aura, to make sure she would never be forgotten-not by me or by anyone else," explained Francisco Goldman about the inspiration for his new novel.
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