Description
Book SynopsisA hybrid memoir that recounts the 1982 disappearance of the author’s stepfather, James Edward Lewis, a pilot and Vietnam veteran. Recounting his family’s experiences in searching for answers, Lunday interrogates the broader cultural and conceptual responses to the phenomenon of missingness.
Trade ReviewElliptical prose . . .moving . . .elegiac."--
Publishers Weekly "With its arresting catalogue of anecdotes and passages illustrating missingness,
Disequilibria captures what it's like to become obsessed with a mystery, as well as what it feels like to get trapped in its labyrinth. But most compellingly, it teaches us that if the grief-stricken can't find out the truth, they can attain solace in the still-present love for those who are gone."--Rigoberto González, author of
Abuela in Shadow, Abuela in Light"This haunting, engrossing, superbly written memoir is full of revelations and mysteries: a kind of prose epic of the missing. Chockful of Americana, it is also marbled with uncanny literary references: Robert Lunday seems to have read everything and put it to good use. His intelligence makes this book shine."--Phillip Lopate, author of
A Mother's TaleTable of Contents
- Finding; Understanding
- Doubles
- Oracles
- Relics
- The Asymptote
- Parallax
- Nomads and Exiles
- In the Cloud
- The Middle Distance
- Face of Shadows
- Uroboros
- The Sun and I
- Hitchhike
- Sayaboury
- I Am the Grass
- The Boy Scout Handbook
- Circles
- The Verge
- Vita Activa
- Disequilibria
- A Beautiful Death
- China
- The Swerve
- A Feral Presence
- Dark Heart
- The Vortex
- Flitcraft's Folly
- Wakefields
- The Circumambient Self
- Subterranean
- Spirit Radios
- Lightness
- Foolish Dreams
- Old Soldiers Never Die
- Worldness
- Flying on Fumes
- July 3, 1969
- The Edge
- Desert Dreams
- The Return
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- Acknowledgments
- Notes
