Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life

by Sofia Samatar

Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces Samatar's attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writing

In a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces, Samatar blends letters from her friend with notes on literature, turning to douard Glissant to study the necessary opacity of identity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593767668
• ISBN13: 9781593767662
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Soft Skull
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.1"