The Glass Eye: A memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1941040772 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 270 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In prose as vivid as a novel and as chiseled as poetry, Vanasco shows the reader that memoir can entail an unexpected, ultimately liberating reckoning. But what happens when the bereaved is already teetering on loose pins? How does a sensitive young writer make sense of life without a father to whom she was fiercely devoted? She writes him a book.In The Glass Eye, Jeannie Vanasco remembers her father with great affection while turning an unflinching gaze of the insupportable grief that visits her upon his death. “The death of a parent is a stunning experience, and can upend even the most groun
A brilliant exploration of the human psyche, The Glass Eye deepens our definitions of love, sanity, grief, and recovery.. Jeannie Vanasco pulls us into her unraveling with such intimacy that her insanity becomes palpable, even logical. Obsession turns to investigation as Jeannie plumbs her childhood awareness of her dead half sibling and hunts for clues into the mysterious circumstances of her death. The Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honor her father, her larger-than-life hero but also the man who named her after his daughter from a previous marriage, a daughter who died. But this isn't the book she imagined. After his funeral, Jeannie spends the next decade in escalating mania, in and out of hospitalsincreasingly obsessed with the other Jeanne. For fans of Maggie Nelson and Meghan O’Rourke, Jeannie Vanasco emerges as a definitive new voice in this stunning portrait of a daughter's love for her father and her near-unraveling after his death. The night before her father dies, eighteen-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book for him. It becomes a puzzle Jeannie feels she must solve to better understand herself and her father
Jeannie Vanasco has written for the Believer, NewYorker, the Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she now lives in Baltimore and teaches at Towson University.