Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Death. The Essay Determines How It Will Begin -- The Grief Scale -- Eight Hours -- The Same Story -- Becoming Bird -- A Kiss for the Dying -- Bone & Skin -- Wearing Her Eyeshadow -- A Love Letter to My Hometown after the Shooting -- The Red Canoe -- Traveling with Ghosts -- Friending the Dead -- Desire. Keep Your Numbers Down -- In Love with the World -- Sportfucking -- This Far from Desire -- Traveling Alone -- Winter Travel -- The Hungry Bride -- Breaking the Codes -- My Mother's Daughter -- Funerals, Safety Pins, and Flaming Saddles -- FM -- The Good Time Girl -- What She Must Do -- Other Difficulties. Animal Bodies -- The Queen of the Amazon -- A True Story about Jealousy -- The Last Goodbye -- Rites of Passage -- Traveling with the Dead -- The Disappearing Act -- Honky-Tonk Woman -- Auntie Suzanne -- The Danger Scale -- Words Etched into Skin -- Mother Keeps Daddy on the Shelf -- Ways to Speak the Unspeakable. Dreaming in the Time of Wildfire |
Summary |
Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame-our taboo desires and our grief |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed June 3, 2022) |
Subject |
Roberts, Suzanne, 1970-
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
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Loss (Psychology)
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Authors, American
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Loss (Psychology)
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Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Essays
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Biographies
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Autobiographies
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Autobiographies.
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Essays.
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Autobiographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1496231880 |
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9781496231888 |
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9781496231871 |
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1496231872 |
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