Loneliest Places

Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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"A child's suicide pitches you into a hellish place of fragmentary images, the deepest depression imaginable, efforts to destroy yourself, and an almost complete break with what's happening in the world around you. That was my experience. I wish it upon no one." The essays of The Loneliest Places began as a chronicle of Rachel Dickinson's life after her son's suicide. The pieces became much more. Dickinson writes the unimaginable and terrifying facts of heartbreaking loss. In The Loneliest Places she tells stories from her months on the run, fleeing her grief and herself, as she escapes to Iceland and the Falkland Islands—as far as possible from the memories of her dead son, Jack. She frankly relates the paralyzing emotion that sometimes left her trapped in her home, confined to a single chair, helplessly isolated. The tales from these years are bleak and Dickinson's journey home, back to her changed self and fractured family, is lonely. Conjuring Emily Dickinson, however, she describes how hope was sighted, allowed to perch, and then, remarkably, made actual.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-10-15
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9781501766091
UtmärkelserWinner of American Society for Journalists and Authors for Memoir/Autobiography 2023 (United States)

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BeginningAutumn, AgainOne NightThoughts You Have While at Your Son's FuneralWithdrawnRunning AwayAdirondack AnniversaryClara and Jack Sing a DuetSeeking Permission from Donald HallThoughtsGuns in the AtticThe People Who StayedTrain Robbers and PinkertonsHope Is a Strange InventionVertigoThrown for a LoopWhy I StayThe Ways in Which I FallRageLet Me Be FrankAngry at a Dead SonThe Gentle ArtsMourning and Melancholia, RejectedTravelPursuit of AlonenessDecember SnowMerry Effing ChristmasLearning to TravelGive Up the GhostBirding on Bleaker IslandSpeculationFictional WorldWhat Would I Take If My House Was on FireThe Time Tim Went to CubaDreamworldGoing to the Spiritualist CampSearchingThe Dude RanchVisitationSearching for Home in ItalyThe Pull of WaterChangeMinefieldsSoft EdgesCalled BackLonelyJane at the EndThe Other Jack GallagherStaying in a Ghost TownAnticipationBeside the VolcanoComeuppanceFeeling IsolatedTim Writes Me a LetterThe Truth about SelfishnessThe PresentThe Corncrake

Dickinson's meditative style and use of metaphor elevate what might otherwise be simply a beautiful, detailed description of place, flora, and fauna to a much deeper study of what nature has to teach us about ourselves and our relationships.(Hippocampus Magazine) An elegant memoir.(Pyschology Today) Absorbing, thoughtful and thought-provoking, The Loneliest Places is an extraordinary testament to love and loss, a child's suicide and the grief that is life changing and could be soul destroying if note dealt with successfully. Exceptionally well written.(Midwest Book Review)