Book description
"Raw-nerved and plangent."―The New Yorker
"Entrancing."―ELLE, A Best Book of 2024
“Glitteringly painful.”―Rachel Cusk
This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. Every ragged young person sitting huddled on a pavement, every stretched-out body under cardboard in a shop doorway.…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Nonfiction as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Cheekily titled for a novel, Nonfiction is metafiction or reads like a fictionalized memoir. It's blunt and brutal, dealing with teenage drug addiction, and a mother swirling in grief, trauma, dealing with pain and powerlessness. It's also about the other parts of the woman, the wife, her memories of a former lover, and her current teaching writing and thinking about writing. It's tough and wise, searing, never sentimental.
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