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Holden, after and Before : Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose by Tara McGuire (2022, Trade Paperback)

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Author: Tara McGuire. Title: Holden, After and Before. Format: Paperback. Release Date: 10/11/2022. Subtitle: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose. Item Weight: 567g. Item Width: 25mm. Item Length: 150mm.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherArsenal Pulp Press

ISBN-101551528932

ISBN-139781551528939

eBay Product ID (ePID)27057257854

Product Key Features

Book TitleHolden, after and before : Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose

Number of Pages356 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicDeath, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Psychopathology / Addiction

GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology

AuthorTara Mcguire

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight19.8 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2021-389438

Reviews"A brave,honest, unspeakably painful but simultaneously beautiful attempt by a 'motherwho was a light bulb shattering on pavement' to come to terms with her young son'slife and death." Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes, "A brave,honest, unspeakably painful but simultaneously beautiful attempt by a 'motherwho was a light bulb striking pavement' to come to terms with her young son'slife and death." Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes, "A brave, honest, unspeakably painful but simultaneously beautiful attempt by a 'mother who was a light bulb shattering on pavement' to come to terms with her young son's life and death." Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes

SynopsisA mother's beautiful elegy to her son lost to overdose. Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief: a stunning book that traces Tara McGuire's excavation and documentation of the life path of her son Holden, a graffiti artist who died of an accidental opioid overdose at the age of twenty-one. Beginning with Holden's death and leaping through time and space, McGuire employs fact, investigation, memory, fantasy, and even fabrication in her search for understanding not only of her son's tragic death, but also his beautiful life. She navigates and writes across the many blank spaces to form a story of discovery and humanity, examining themes of grief, pain, mental illness, trauma, creative expression, identity, and deep, unending love inside just one of the thousands of deaths that have occurred as a result of the opioid crisis. With poignant honesty and a heart laid bare, Holden After and Before is a beautiful and moving elegy to a son lost to overdose., Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief: a stunning book that traces Tara McGuire's excavation and documentation of the life path of her son Holden, a graffiti artist who died of an accidental opioid overdose at the age of twenty-one. Beginning with Holden's death and leaping through time and space, McGuire employs fact, investigation, memory, fantasy, and even fabrication in her search for understanding not only of her son's tragic death, but also of his beautiful life. She navigates and writes across the many blank spaces to form a story of discovery and humanity, examining themes of grief, pain, mental illness, trauma, creative expression, identity, and deep, unending love inside just one of the thousands of deaths that have occurred as a result of the opioid crisis. With poignant honesty and a heart laid bare, Holden After and Before is a beautiful and moving elegy to a son lost to overdose.

LC Classification NumberBF575.G7M41 2022