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Name: Bough down
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Karen L. Green

Bough Down is a book of dualities that probes the subtle spaces between lucidity and madness, desire and ambivalence, the living and the absent. It serves both as an evocation of the author’s love for her husband, David Foster Wallace, and an act of defiance in the face of devastating loss. The work is lapidary and keenly observed, composed with the honesty of an open heart.

First publish date: 2013

Genre: Literary Fiction/Experimental Fiction

Authors: Karen L. Green

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