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Holden, After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose

Holden, After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose

McGuire, Tara

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ISBN10: 1551528932
ISBN13: 9781551528939
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: Oct 11 2022
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A mother's beautiful elegy to her son lost to overdose.


Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief: a stunning book that traces Tara McGuire's excavation and documentation of the life path of her son Holden, a graffiti artist who died of an accidental opioid overdose at the age of twenty-one. Beginning with Holden's death and leaping through time and space, McGuire employs fact, investigation, memory, fantasy, and even fabrication in her search for understanding not only of her son's tragic death, but also his beautiful life. She navigates and writes across the many blank spaces to form a story of discovery and humanity, examining themes of grief, pain, mental illness, trauma, creative expression, identity, and deep, unending love inside just one of the thousands of deaths that have occurred as a result of the opioid crisis.

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