Wet Wound: An Elegy in Essays - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Maddie NorrisSeries:Crux: The Georgia Literary NonfictionPublish date:2024-03-15Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820366685ISBN-10:820366684UPC:9780820366685Book Category:Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal MemoirsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCFW9KEB00
Wet Wound: An Elegy in Essays
This debut essay collection is inspired by the grief Maddie Norris experienced in the wake of her father's death from cancer when she was seventeen. Norris uses a medical lens to examine the anguish that followed and likens mourning to wound care.
These linked essays examine grief from different angles, resulting in a multilayered exploration of why, contrary to popular belief, keeping wounds...Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820366685ISBN-10:820366684UPC:9780820366685Book Category:Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal MemoirsSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.5401Product ID:SCFW9KEB00
MADDIE NORRIS is the Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work appears in Guernica, Fourth Genre, Territory, and Essay Daily, among other publications. Her essays have won the Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction from Ninth Letter and have been named as notable in Best American Essays. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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