Alexandra Styron, author of READING MY FATHER Wise, brave and beautifully wrought, The Glass Eye signals the arrival of an exceptionally fine new voice. The book is a fascinating meditation on loss, and an enduring monument to what remains. 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. 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.
The death of a parent is a stunning experience, and can upend even the most grounded soul. Emily Geminder, author of Dead Girls and Other StoriesĮxplores the common experience of rape with uncommon nuance and intense tenderness. Sital, author of Secrets We Kept: Three Women of TrinidadĬuts through the silence of deep betrayal. Interrogates the terms of betrayal and the limits of redemption. Elissa Washuta, author of My Body is a Book of Rules Daniel Gumbiner, author of The Boatbuilder Megan Stielstra, author of The Wrong Way to Save Your Life Sophia Shalmiyev, author of Mother Winter I wish everyone in this country would read it.
Inimitable.Īn extraordinarily brave work of self- and cultural reflection.Įxactly the book we need right now.
Sets the canon of #MeToo-era creative nonfiction on fire.
A work that has the potential to change the way we think and talk about rape and the people who commit it. Vanasco immediately makes you wonder how we can take so much about sexual assault for granted. Creates a language for something we don’t talk about.Ī gripping read and true fodder for the necessary reckoning with toxic masculinity. Thought-provoking, unmooring, and haunting. Perhaps the most important book of the season. Vanasco’s narrative pushes far past the flattened media narrative of Me Too and asks uncomfortable questions about how to talk about rape culture, toxic masculinity and gender, justice, and resilience. A reckoning with injustice.Ībout violence and forgiveness, about friendship and the unwanted title of victim, about digging deeper and deeper to seek answers.Ī cuttingly funny meta-meditation on her own pain in the context of #MeToo.Ī remarkably nuanced account of the complicated and confusing emotions that surface when your rapist is someone you knew and trusted.Ībout how important it is to speak about these oft-silenced experiences that cause so many to feel ashamed, scared, and alone.Ī stunning work of meta nonfiction.
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