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No Contact: Writers On Estrangement
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A Landmark Work Around A Theme So ProminentAnd Yet So Thoroughly IgnoredIn Modern Life. Ocean Vuonga Poignant And Galvanizing Anthology That Illuminates The Realities And Nuances Of Family Estrangement, With Pieces By Stephanie Foo, Nick Flynn, Deesha Philyaw, Cheryl Strayed, And Othersestrangement Presents An Essential Existential Question: Who Are We Without Our Family? What Kind Of Person Cuts The Proverbial Umbilical Cord And Why? And Who Do We Become, Once Untethered From Our Kin?Families Fall Apart And Individuals Cut Ties For Myriad ReasonsAbuse, Politics, Mental Illness, And Addiction, Among OthersAnd Reunification Often Is Not In The Cards. Estrangement Can Be A Positive Change, As Emi Nietfeld Explains In Her Essay About Finding Relief And Logic After Cutting Off Her Mother. It Can Be A Journey: Noam Keim Rebuilds Their Sense Of Self By Learning Arabic In Their Ancestral Homeland Of Morocco, While Nicole Graev Lipson Searches For Answers In Literature And Motherhood After Her Brother Ghosts Her. Other Writers Explore How Estrangement Complicates LifeS Big ShiftsDomenica Ruta Traces The Repercussions Of Severing Ties While Battling Cancer; Hannah Bae Reels From The Prospect Of Cultural Alienation When She Cuts Off Her Korean Parents; And After Twenty Years Of Separation, Soni Brown Reluctantly Becomes Her MotherS Caretaker As Dementia Erases Her Memory.Through ThirtyTwo Intimate, FirstPerson Accounts, No Contact Counters The Prevalent Trope Of Reconciliation As A Happy Ending, Focusing Instead On The Complex Grief, Healing, And Authenticity Found In The Rupture From Family.Featuring Work By Hannah Bae, Eben E. B. Bein, Soni Brown, Lorne Daniel, Lindsey Danis, Michelle Dowd, Nick Flynn, Stephanie Foo, Gabriela Denise Frank, Susan Ito, Danielle Jernigan, Noam Keim, Erika Krouse, Monique Laban, Cassandra Lewis, Kate Lewis, Nicole Graev Lipson, Tiffany Aldrich Macbain, Jamal Mahjoub, Onita MorganEdwards, Emi Nietfeld, Geneva Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, Anna Qu, Domenica Ruta, Oslyn Serratos, Alyson Shelton, Cheryl Strayed, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Raksha Vasudevan, Jane Wong, And Kristen Millares Young.
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