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Made Holy - Essays (Paperback)
Emily Arnason Casey; Series edited by John Griswold
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In haunting prose that will follow you for days to come, Made Holy
tells the story of the American family. Love, loss, and addiction
entwine in this moving debut collection. Emily Arnason Casey
employs the lyric imagination to probe memory and the ever-shifting
lens of time as she seeks to make sense of the disease that haunts
her maternal family tree and the alchemy of loss and longing. The
lakes of her childhood in Minnesota form the interior landscape of
this book, a kind of watery nostalgia for something just beyond her
reach. "I know this feeling," she writes. "We travel along the
surface of time and then suddenly the layers give way and we are in
another year, another body, another place." Casey's willingness to
honestly examine the past and present with contemplative lyricism
offers fresh perspective and new understanding. In electric moments
that are utterly relatable, she weaves a tale of love and
commitment to the truth of her experience despite the incredible
desire to keep alive a legacy of secrets. Like the mullein plant
she invokes in the final essay, these essays form a kind of
"guardian to the lost."
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