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Triage

Triage

Rankine, Claudia

Hardcover

Letters & EssaysLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

Publisher Price: $28.00

ISBN10: 1644454009
ISBN13: 9781644454008
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.76 Depth: 8.43
Language: English

A groundbreaking new direction for Claudia Rankine, the best-selling author of Citizen and Just Us

Claudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. In her first book after her celebrated American trilogy, presented with full-color visuals, Rankine shifts into sustained narrative, memory, criticism, and essay to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet.

Triage follows the turbulent friendship between two composite characters, the narrator and the theorist, self-identified sisters struggling to define their wounded histories and their shared but separate lives. During college, they invent a game of collapse: Every time they see each other, they have to stop and fall to the ground. As their kinship continues off and on for decades, collapse takes on new meanings that are seen and felt in the violence of their pasts, artworks depicting couches where someone might ease their exhaustion, the ongoing devastation in Gaza, and the antagonism of their conversation and their love for each other.

Triage is an argument for the necessity of grieving and the demand for action in our time of relentless loss. No matter our posture, Rankine writes, we are all among the rubble. This is a book for those complicated but beautiful friendships that we come to rely on to unsettle us, to make us better.

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