Kintsugi

"""O'Rourke is fiercely experimental and explores themes of loss, perfectionism, longing, and healing, fragmenting her identity within the collection through the use of first-, second-, and third-person points of view…"" -- Books+Publishing ""An ultimately affirming memoir of familial rupture, grief and growth emerges mosaic-like from a series of short, stylistically diverse narratives. Kintsugi combines autobiographical moments with often essay-like reflections on these, and on apt quotes from historical and contemporary writers, revealing ways of creating a coherent self from a fractured life"" -- Simone Lazaro ""… a remarkable construction … a kind of manifesto in its depiction and especially in its valuing of female experience, in its careful and finally passionate depiction of how patriarchy works to make girls into women who will serve its needs as they serve the needs of the individual men it empowers."" -- Katherine Coles"