The Loved Ones

Essays to Bury the Dead

Madison Davis

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Dzanc Books
19 October 2023

Literary essays; Coping with death & bereavement

Winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, The Loved Ones presents an intimate portrait of family grief, for fans of Maggie Nelson's Jane: A Murder and Kristin Prevallet's I, Afterlife

There are so many ways to bury the dead. In an autobiographical series of essays, The Loved Ones explores the deaths of four family members across three generations: an inexplicable double murder, a fatal car accident, a long illness, and a conscripted solider killed in action.

Piece by piece, each essay explores the death a loved one ina collage of vignettes: the loss, the aftermath, the funerals, and the rituals usedto say goodbye to the body. As the investigation deepens, Davis lines up otherforms of death-capital punishment and murder; medically-assisted suicide and""natural"" death from disease; military conscription and ""freak accident""-to seewhat comes to the surface.

The Loved Ones

is about the intricate reality of grief, the instability of time and memory in the face of loss, and the feeling of being left behind still living. It asks, what does it mean to bury our loved ones when our only desire is to never let them go?

By: Madison Davis
Imprint: Dzanc Books
Country of Publication: United States
ISBN: 9781950539772
ISBN 10: 1950539776
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Madison Davis (she/her) is a writer and editor based in Oakland, California. She is the author of Disaster (Timeless, Infinite Light; Nightboat, 2016) and The Loved Ones (Dzanc Books, forthcoming 2023.) Madison’s work can also be found in a few magazines and anthologies and many more files on her computer. Madison received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2009 where she studied poetry and music. In 2011, she moved from New York to Oakland to attend Mills College where she graduated with an MFA in poetry in 2013. She is currently an associate editor at New Harbinger Publications.

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The Loved Ones

Essays to Bury the Dead

Madison Davis

$37.95 $34.34

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