A mother loses her daughter in a road accident. In the aftermath, she turns to Bach.

She begins to study and play the Goldberg Variations, moving through them one by one, using their structure — repetition, variation, return — as a way to survive what cannot be repaired.

Counterpoint unfolds in alternating movements: grief and music, memory and analysis, body and score. Mourning here is how sound carries what language cannot and how a form might hold what life has broken.

It’s a quiet book, structured like the music it reveres. Very moving, very beautiful.