Lifeline

An Elegy

2023 INDIES Winner
Honorable Mention, Grief/Grieving (Adult Nonfiction)
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What happens when someone you love suddenly cliff-dives into mental illness? And then you discover that there may be no return? This experimental memoir reflects on the author’s intimate and complicated relationship with a woman diagnosed with suicidal depression. Interweaving personal essays, fragmented prose, poetry, stream-of-consciousness, and text exchanges, this collage-style book illuminates the urgency and intimacy of caring for someone with an ultimately fatal mental illness.