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In a series of loosely linked essays, Cristín Leach writes about the gaps between reality and perception, about writing and anxiety, body and brain, breaking and making, succeeding and failing, conventionality and independence.
The non-linear structure of the essays, with repeats, retakes, and deliberately unsaid or missing information, mimics the gaps in memory and understanding that are part of the human condition, especially during times of great stress. It’s about art and writing as a fundamental way of explaining and understanding the world, perhaps saying what cannot be said, or revealing without showing.
This is a linked memoir about writing as a salve and a means of escape, marriage as a refuge and a trap, the nature of home, and what happened when everything fell apart.
(If that blurb risks makes the book sound overtly highbrow it is inaccurate - the book is a linked series of thoughts on a long gestating marriage breakup - on modern life, the internet, on art as a source of succor, of raw emotion, and much more. I loved it. )
Paperback, brand new, FIRST PUBLISHED 2022, Merrion Press
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