Nonfiction

This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you're gone, I see you everywhere. Every ragged young person sitting huddled on a pavement, every stretched-out body under cardboard in a shop doorway.

Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. As the mother--a novelist--attempts to understand her daughter, she finds herself revisiting her own uneasy, unresolved relationship with her mother. Weaving between childhoods past and present, laced with temptation and betrayal, Nonfiction: A Novel is an unflinching account of a mother, daughter, wife, and author reckoning with the world around her. But can a writer ever be trusted with the truth of her own story?

Clear-eyed, lacerating, and fearless, Julie Myerson's Nonfiction: A Novel explores maternal love as an emotional foundation to both crave and fear. A hauntingly beautiful and deeply moving love letter from a mother to a daughter, this is a tale of damage and addiction, recovery and creativity, compassion and love.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tin House
Published: 01/02/2024
ISBN: 9781959030317
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 12/04/2023
Booklist 12/01/2023 pg. 100
Shelf Awareness 01/26/2024