In 2008, one of Sarah Manguso's oldest friends eloped from a New York City psychiatric hospital and threw himself in front of a train; the last ten hours of his life are unaccounted for. In this new memoir, Manguso continues her attention to illness, suffering, and time's relentless forward momentum, which prevents total recovery from grief. As she did brilliantly in her first memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay, Manguso explores the insufficiency of explanation and the necessity of the imagination in making sense of anything at all.
- ISBN10 1250024153
- ISBN13 9781250024152
- Publish Date 5 March 2013 (first published 28 February 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martins Press-3PL
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 128
- Language English