316:"Many essays in the collection are more intimate: with anger and image, music and grief, they mediate the smaller but similarly absorbing complexities of family. Mishearing, misunderstanding, selfishness, illness, and stress; economic segregation, environmental injustice, systematic incarceration; the "something fragile" that composes walls, floor, the ceiling that falls in chunks while the author and her father await her mother's arrival; the flickerings of gentleness and love. I want to press my eye, my ear, to the pieces that don't unify or homogenize but do call to each other, to the leak where things can leave or enter."
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