American Grief in Four Stages: Stories

by Sadie Hoagland

Book Overview

American Grief in Four Stages is a collection of stories that imagines trauma as a space in which language fails us and narrative escapes us. These stories play with form and explore the impossibility of elegy and the inability of our culture to communicate grief, or sympathy, outside of cliché. One narrator, for example, tries to understand her brother's suicide by excavating his use of idioms. Other stories construe grief and trauma in much subtler...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949199215
• ISBN13: 9781949199215
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"