The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion
It s a report tempered by hard times. In Matricide, Daum unflinchingly describes a parent s death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in Diary of a Coma she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she...
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It s a report tempered by hard times. In Matricide, Daum unflinchingly describes a parent s death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in Diary of a Coma she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating
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Format: Audio CD
ISBN:
9781633792876 (1633792870)
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Edition language: English
I’m pretty smitten with this Meghan Daum character. I read rave reviews of her recently released essay collection The Unspeakable, only to find that every other reader in town found these same reviews and requested the book from the library before me. So I get my hands on the only other Daum work of...