First published 2019
Philip Seidel sits at his desk, pen in hand, but the words that come are always about Abigail. His wife is gone, yet she fills every story he tries to write. He recalls their conversations, reimagines their fights, and invents new scenes between them that never happened. The grief that once consumed him has faded, but something else has taken its place. He cannot separate his memories from his fantasies about her. Each attempt to move forward becomes another loop back to their shared past. Seidel recounts moments from their marriage, then twists the details, unsure what actually occurred and what his mind has created. He knows he should let go, but his pen keeps returning to her name. In these interconnected stories, an aging writer discovers that losing someone you love is only the beginning of a longer, stranger journey.
Genres: fiction, short-stories, literary-fiction, contemporary
Vibes: emotional-atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
319 pages · Paperback · Trnsfr Books