{"product_id":"the-loneliest-places-9781501766091","title":"The Loneliest Places","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA child''s suicide pitches you into a hellish place of fragmentary images, the deepest depression imaginable, efforts to destroy yourself, and an almost complete break with what''s happening in the world around you. That was my experience. I wish it upon no one.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe essays of \u003ci\u003eThe Loneliest Places\u003c\/i\u003e began as a chronicle of Rachel Dickinson''s life after her son''s suicide. The pieces became much more. Dickinson writes the unimaginable and terrifying facts of heartbreaking loss. In \u003ci\u003eThe Loneliest Places\u003c\/i\u003e she tells stories from her months on the run, fleeing her grief and herself, as she escapes to Iceland and the Falkland Islandsas far as possible from the memories of her dead son, Jack. She frankly relates the paralyzing emotion that sometimes left her trapped in her home, confined to a single chair, helplessly isolated. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe tales from these years are bleak and Dickinson''s journey home, back to her changed self and fractured family, is lone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDickinson's meditative style and use of metaphor elevate what might otherwise be simply a beautiful, detailed description of place, flora, and fauna to a much deeper study of what nature has to teach us about ourselves and our relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e * Hippocampus Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn elegant memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e * Pyschology Today *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbsorbing, thoughtful and thought-provoking, \u003ci\u003eThe Loneliest Places\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary testament to love and loss, a child's suicide and the grief that is life changing and could be soul destroying if note dealt with successfully. Exceptionally well written.\u003c\/p\u003e * Midwest Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning\u003cbr\u003e Autumn, Again\u003cbr\u003e One Night\u003cbr\u003e Thoughts You Have While at Your Son's Funeral\u003cbr\u003e Withdrawn\u003cbr\u003e Running Away\u003cbr\u003e Adirondack Anniversary\u003cbr\u003e Clara and Jack Sing a Duet\u003cbr\u003e Seeking Permission from Donald Hall\u003cbr\u003e Thoughts\u003cbr\u003e Guns in the Attic\u003cbr\u003e The People Who Stayed\u003cbr\u003e Train Robbers and Pinkertons\u003cbr\u003e Hope Is a Strange Invention\u003cbr\u003e Vertigo\u003cbr\u003e Thrown for a Loop\u003cbr\u003e Why I Stay\u003cbr\u003e The Ways in Which I Fall\u003cbr\u003e Rage\u003cbr\u003e Let Me Be Frank\u003cbr\u003e Angry at a Dead Son\u003cbr\u003e The Gentle Arts\u003cbr\u003e Mourning and Melancholia, Rejected\u003cbr\u003e Travel\u003cbr\u003e Pursuit of Aloneness\u003cbr\u003e December Snow\u003cbr\u003e Merry Effing Christmas\u003cbr\u003e Learning to Travel\u003cbr\u003e Give Up the Ghost\u003cbr\u003e Birding on Bleaker Island\u003cbr\u003e Speculation\u003cbr\u003e Fictional World\u003cbr\u003e What Would I Take If My House Was on Fire\u003cbr\u003e The Time Tim Went to Cuba\u003cbr\u003e Dreamworld\u003cbr\u003e Going to the Spiritualist Camp\u003cbr\u003e Searching\u003cbr\u003e The Dude Ranch\u003cbr\u003e Visitation\u003cbr\u003e Searching for Home in Italy\u003cbr\u003e The Pull of Water\u003cbr\u003e Change\u003cbr\u003e Minefields\u003cbr\u003e Soft Edges\u003cbr\u003e Called Back\u003cbr\u003e Lonely\u003cbr\u003e Jane at the End\u003cbr\u003e The Other Jack Gallagher\u003cbr\u003e Staying in a Ghost Town\u003cbr\u003e Anticipation\u003cbr\u003e Beside the Volcano\u003cbr\u003e Comeuppance\u003cbr\u003e Feeling Isolated\u003cbr\u003e Tim Writes Me a Letter\u003cbr\u003e The Truth about Selfishness\u003cbr\u003e The Present\u003cbr\u003e The Corncrake\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409366688087,"sku":"9781501766091","price":13.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501766091.jpg?v=1730506555","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-loneliest-places-9781501766091","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}