The Glass Eye: A memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (596 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1941040772 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 270 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wise, brave and beautifully wrought, The Glass Eye signals the arrival of an exceptionally fine new voice.” (Alexandra Styron, author of READING MY FATHER)“Jeannie Vanasco's The Glass Eye is memoir as it ought to be, but so rarely is: beautiful and painfully raw, but also restrained and lyrical. The book is a fascinating meditation on loss, and an enduring monument to what remains. In The Glass Eye the writer asks, in prose that mesmerizes with geometric precision, how we can orient ourselves to the world when our only compass is
Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she now lives in Baltimore and teaches at Towson University. Jeannie Vanasco has written for the Believer, NewYorker, the Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, and elsewhere.
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. 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. The Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle